Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 7

1859 – The Chicago and North Western Railway is chartered.
2000 – The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel (pictured), originally built for rail traffic in 1943, opens for combined rail/highway traffic, making it the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America.
2001 – SNCF opens a station in Avignon, France, on the Meditrranean TGV line.
2004 – The high speed Gautrain between Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa is announced; it is expected to open in 2009.

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