November 28, 1909 Game Wardens in Floodwood, MI are surprised to discover their dogs ¡°keying in¡± on a coffin waiting on the platform of the passenger station on the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad (later MILW). They open it and find the coffin is not filled with the remains of a hunter killed in an accident, but illegally taken game birds.
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November 28, 1917 The Pennsylvania Company agrees to transfer all of its railroad holdings to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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November 28, 1920 Passenger service between Butler and Columbia City IN on the former Eel River Railroad is cut from two to one round trip daily.
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November 28, 1925 A Michigan Railway interurban car strikes an automobile at the Burton Street crossing in Grand Rapids, killing all 7 occupants of the car. The automobile had driven around another that was waiting for the approaching interurban when it was struck.
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November 28, 1928 Canadian National diesel-electric #9000 makes its initial test runs on the railroad.
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November 28, 1931 The Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad notifies shippers that the line will no longer handle freight east of Gaylord as of December 1.
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November 28, 1942 Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Shops coverts an X32 boxcar into a P30A troop sleeper for the first time. After the war, many veterans will refuse to ride trains due to their experiences in the cars.
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November 28, 1992 Three Englishmen begin their effort to set a record for the most miles traveled by rail in a single week. They succeed, covering 13,105 miles.
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November 28, 1995 Canadian National Railway is privatized, no longer a Crown Corporation.
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November 28, 2006 Nigeria holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Lagos-Kano railway. This joint venture with China is expected to be the first step in the modernization of the Nigerian Railway system.
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Mark Tomlonson
