November 27, 1873 The Hoosac Tunnel on the Boston & Maine, the oldest railroad tunnel in the United States, is holed through.
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November 27, 1877 A Pittsburgh-Chicago RPO is established on the Pennsylvania Railroad, making a complete PRR RPO route between New York and Chicago.
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November 27, 1890 Streetcar service begins in Sandusky OH.
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November 27, 1891 Horsecars call it quits in Janesville WI.
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November 27, 1892 The first "Limited" train serving southern California makes its debut: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's "California Limited".
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November 27, 1895 Wisconsin Power & Light begins streetcar operations in Sheboygan WI.
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November 27, 1901 A head-on collision on the Wabash near Seneca MI kills 23 people.
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November 27, 1904 A new Pennsylvania Railroad timetable has 522 trains in and out of Philadelphia's Broad Street Station each day.
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November 27, 1904 The Pennsylvania Railroad replaces its Chicago-Valparaiso local with one running between Chicago and Plymouth IN.
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November 27, 1906 The Pennsylvania Railroad completes the first all-steel 60-foot baggage car at its Altoona Shops.
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November 27, 1910 The Pennsylvania Railroad begins using New York City's Pennsylvania Station.
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November 27, 1910 The “20th Century Limited” receives new all-steel cars.
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November 27, 1916 The Pennsylvania Railroad completes its first I1s 2-10-0 heavy freight locomotive at Altoona.
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November 27, 1940 Nearly all services on the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway (interurban) are suspended, save for one round trip for the convenience of commuters.
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November 27, 1947 The Pennsylvania Railroad introduces its "Merchandise Service", a group of boxcars equipped with racks for on-line service.
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November 27, 1964 The Pennsylvania Railroad drops all commuter service in and out of Pittsburgh PA.
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November 27, 1966 Last run of Erie-Lackawanna's premier passenger train, the "Phoebe Snow".
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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 is cut from two to one round trip daily.
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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, 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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November 29, 1847 Michigan's first telegraph line is completed along the Michigan Central Railroad tracks between Detroit and Ypsilanti. The first messages sent are long and range from the price of wheat and putty to news of the Mexican War. Eventually the line will extend to Chicago and be used by the Michigan Central to dispatch trains.
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November 29, 1849 The Michigan Central schedules a second train on its Detroit-New Buffalo line, with a meet in Galesburgh. (That town no longer uses the final "h".)
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November 29, 1852 The Pennsylvania Railroad opens between Beattys and Radebaugh forming a complete rail line between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The route uses the Portage Railroad (including the remaining seven inclined planes) over the Allegheny Mountains.
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November 29, 1871 The Jackson (MI) Citizen reports that the Central Car & Manufacturing Company of that city has shipped its first order: ten platform cars to the Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Railway.
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November 29, 1871 The Syracuse, Phoenix & Oswego Railway (later RW&O, NYC&HR, NYC) is chartered to run 17 miles from Woodward to Fulton NY.
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November 29, 2011 The Wisconsin & Southern is sold to Kansas-based Watco.
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November 29, 2011 Amtrak expands on-board Wi-Fi service to all three of its state-supported California trains. Nearly 75% of Amtrak's passengers now have Wi-Fi access, the major exceptions being Amtrak's long distance trains.
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Mark Tomlonson
