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July 9

• 1889 – The Housatonic Railroad, a predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, leases the New Haven and Derby Railroad.
• 1905 – The Scott Special, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway passenger train chartered by "Death Valley Scotty" for $5,500, departs Los Angeles, California, on its record breaking run to Chicago, Illinois, in just under 45 hours.^[1][2]
• 1918 – Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway trains collide head-on. 101 people are killed, and 171 are injured, making the Great train wreck of 1918 (pictured) the deadliest train accident in United States history.
• 1926 – The first use of a radiotelephone on a train, occurs on a train of the New York Central Railroad.

[edit] See also

• July 9 in rail transport

[edit] References

1. ^ Signor, John R., compiler (first quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet 12 (1): p 17-29.  (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
2. ^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p 389-392.