September 13, 1893 The Ottawa, Amprior & Perry Sound Railway (later GT, CN) opens between Ottawa and Amprior ON. It will become at one point in its history the busiest rail line in Canada.
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September 13, 1918 The USRA orders that skilled 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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September 15, 1885 A Grand Trunk freight train running through St. Thomas ON strikes and kills the circus star “Jumbo” the elephant. The elephants were being loaded onto the circus train on an adjacent track but fouling the main line. The elephants were on the main track ahead of the time the circus had been given clearance.
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Mark Tomlonson
