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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

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 ?

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

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

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

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,

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

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.

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,

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

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,

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",

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.

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

January 13, 1842 The Philadelphia & Reading (later Reading) opens for revenue freight and passenger service from Mount Carmel to Philadelphia. Its coal-hauling operations will prove that a rail road

January 10, 1954 Baltimore PCC route 13 (North Avenue) was converted to bus operation to save $250,000 in track repair costs. January 12, 1966 The 12-day strike against the NYCTA ended when the

January 10, 1863 London's first subway begins operation, powered by steam. Parts of the line have been built in cuts and many ventilators are installed in the covered portions, yet it will remain very

January 9, 1830 Ground is broken in Charleston, South Carolina for the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road (later SRR, NS). It will be the first railroad in South Carolina to use steam locomotives. In

January 8, 1855 The first through train runs from Chicago to Cairo, IL. January 8, 1855 A mob in Erie, PA tears up the tracks of the Erie & North Eastern, the last battle in the "Gauge War". January

January 7, 1952 The closure of Reading's trolley system kept Pennsylvania as the top trolley state because of its remaining trolley systems: Altoona, Johnstown, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton, and