Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 10
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- 1853 – Canada's Great Western Railway opens the line from Hamilton, Ontario, to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.
- 1887 – Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's locomotive to heat the passenger cars instead of coal or wood stoves in each car.
- 1909 – Louis Brennan successfully demonstrates his gyroscopically-balanced monorail system (pictured), which he designed for military use and patented in 1903, at Gillingham, England.
- 1979 – A CP Rail train develops a hot box and derails 24 cars carrying hazardous materials near Mississauga, Ontario; almost 250,000 people are evacuated for up to five days at a time while cleanup from the 1979 Mississauga train derailment commences.
