January 30 in RR History
January 30, 1834 The first railroad built in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.
January 30, 1875 The Detroit, Hillsdale & South Western (later LS&MS, NYC) is incorporated. It
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Re: January 27 in RR History
January 27, 1957 Philadelphia PCC cars on the 7 routes operating from
Luzerne Depot (routes 6, 20, 47, 50, 53, 56, and 60) received lock-type
fare boxes. Only the Woodland PCC cars still needed to
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Dennis Linsky
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Re: January 28 in RR History
January 28, 1966 Michael J. Quill, president of the Transport Workers
Union, died of a heart attack in New York. He was 60.
Dennis M Linsky
[email protected]> wrote:
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Dennis Linsky
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Re: January 29 in RR History
January 29, 1956 Philadelphia trolley routes 26 and 52 were converted to
bus operation with new GMC TDH-5106 diesel buses, ending trolley service on
busy Chelten Avenue on Germantown. In Center City,
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Dennis Linsky
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January 29 in RR History
January 29, 1830 Papers are filed for the first railroad incorporated in Kentucky, the Lexington & Ohio Railroad Company.
January 29, 1834 In the first use of federal troops to put down a labor
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Mark Tomlonson
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January 28 in RR History
January 28, 1823 The Pennsylvania Senate passes a bill allowing John Stevens to build a railroad from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania House will kill the bill in Committee.
January 28,
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Mark Tomlonson
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January 27 in RR History
January 27, 1824 The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company is incorporated in Virginia.
January 27, 1836 The State of Indiana enacts "Internal Improvements" legislation, calling for roads, canals and
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Mark Tomlonson
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This Weekend in RR History
January 24, 1828 Horatio Allen of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company sets sail for England. His mission is to examine rail roads in that country and to buy 5 steam locomotives of no more than 5 ?
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Mark Tomlonson
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Re: January 23 in RR History
January 23, 1955 Full time PCC car service began on West Philadelphia
trolley route 41 (North 63rd Street from Overbrook to Millbourne) with 4 or
5 cars used. Route 41 was PTC's 10th all-PCC line. On
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Dennis Linsky
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January 23 in RR History
January 23, 1869 George Westinghouse applies for his first air-brake patent.
January 23, 1872 The Baltimore & Ohio completes the first grain elevator at Locust Point, Baltimore.
January 23, 1876 A
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Mark Tomlonson
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January 22 in RR History
January 22, 1857 The Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad (later PM, C&O, Chessie, CSX) is chartered to construct a rail line from Flint to Lake Michigan via Saginaw.
January 22, 1858 The directors of the
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Mark Tomlonson
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January 21 in RR History
January 21, 1841 George Hacker patents a passenger car based on a tobacco barrel. The car was intended to be 30’ long with 20 windows, but the design was never built.
January 21, 1873 The New York,
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Mark Tomlonson
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January 20 in RR History
January 20, 1837 An advertisement in the “Toledo Blade” states that the Erie & Kalamazoo has received its first steam engine, and service will commence “in a few days”.
January 20, 1846 An
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Mark Tomlonson
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Re: This Weekend in RR History
January 17, 1952 Mrs. Katherine Parks, a Philadelphia trolley operator then
assigned to route 37, was robbed at Westinghouse Loop in suburban Lester by
a 25-year old black man who had a jail record.
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Dennis Linsky
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This Weekend in RR History
January 17, 1854 The Great Western of Canada is completed to Windsor ON.
January 17, 1870 Regular service begins between Grand Rapids and Jackson MI on the Grand Valley Railroad [later MC, NYC, PC,
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Mark Tomlonson
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January 16 in RR History
January 16, 1830 The Tuscumbia Railroad, the first in Alabama, is chartered.
January 16, 1836 The first railroad out of Chicago, the Galena & Chicago Union, receives its charter. The railroad, later
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Mark Tomlonson
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Re: January 15 in RR HIstory
January 15, 1953 The PRR GG-1 locomotive involved in the Union Station
crash in Washington was 4876, which later sent to Altoona, Pennsylvania,
for heavy repairs and returned to service in May,
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Dennis Linsky
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January 15 in RR HIstory
January 15, 1829 The "America", the first steam locomotive in the United States, arrives at New York.
January 15, 1831 The first American-built locomotive to pull a passenger train, "Best Friend",
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Mark Tomlonson
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Re: January 14 in RR History
January 14, 1953 A 4-day TWU strike against the Philadelphia Transportation
Company was settled but the TWU strike against 5th Avenue Coach Lines
continued until January 30.
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Dennis Linsky
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January 14 in RR History
January 14, 1851 First train into Salem IN on the New Albany & Salem Rail Road (later CIL, L&N).
January 14, 1878 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal government has no power to overturn
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Mark Tomlonson
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