September 13, 1918 The USRA orders that skilled American railroad workers will be given draft deferments.
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September 13, 1940 The merger of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern and Mobile & Ohio railroads forms the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. (later ICG, IC, CN)
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September 13, 1961 Canadian National Railways opens Montreal Yard. It will later be named Taschereau Hump Marshaling Yard.
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September 13, 1974 Amtrak shows off its new Chicago-Port Huron route in a run for the press. Regular service, which will return inter-city passenger trains to the Grand Trunk Western, will begin on 9/15.
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Mark Tomlonson
