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October 18, 1882 Horsecars come to Oshkosh WI.

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October 18, 1886 The St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas (later Cotton Belt) converts to standard gauge. The project starts at 5:00 am and is completed at 6:00 pm.

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October 18, 1909 A special silver cup is given to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Purchasing Department Baseball Team, winners of the General Office baseball League competition. PRR's General Office has also established Basketball and Bowling Leagues.

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October 18, 1911 The carferry Chief Wawatam arrives in St. Ignace MI and will start ferrying passengers and railroad cars across the Straits of Mackinaw in the next couple of days. The previous ferry, the all-wood St. Marie will be retired.

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October 18, 1947 Inaugural run of the "AuRoRa", Alaska's premier passenger train.

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October 18, 1947 The Great Northern celebrates its 10,000^th trainload of apples leaving Wenatchee WA.

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October 18, 1955 The last of Philadelphia's Nearside cars are burned. Only car 6618 has survived, given to the Seashore Trolley Museum in April, 1955.

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October 18, 1961 General Motors' Electro-Motive Division completes construction of its first GP30.

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October 18, 2005 The Delray Connecting Railway is transferred from US Steel ownership to Transtar. Transtar also owns the Elgin Joliet & Eastern, the Birmingham Southern, the Lake Terminal Connecting Railway, the McKeesport Connecting Railroad and the Union Railroad.

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October 18, 2010 Ground is broken for the expansion of the west concourse of Penn Station.

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October 19, 1839 The first railway timetable, devised by George Bradshaw, is published in Manchester, England.

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October 19, 1862 Over the next several days, the Confederate Army will destroy all Baltimore & Ohio facilities at Martinsburg, WV and over 20 miles of main line.

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October 19, 1873 The Post Office Department extends the mail route over the Grand Rapids & Indiana from Walton to Traverse City.

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October 19, 1878 The Detroit & Milwaukee is reorganized as the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. [later GTW]

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October 19, 1893 A Grand Trunk passenger train wrecks at Battle Creek MI, killing 26.

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October 19, 1897 George M. Pullman dies suddenly. Animosity among railroad laborers left over from the Pullman Strike is still running high, and he will be buried at night in a lead-lined coffin encased in steel to prevent desecration of his grave.

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October 19, 1897 First railroad in Zimbabwe.

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October 19, 1931 Mixed train service on the Michigan Central between Battle Creek and Three Rivers MI via Fairfax ends.

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October 19, 1943 Operation of troop sleeper and kitchen cars is turned over to the Pullman Company.

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October 19, 1949 Following complaints by the New York City Mayor's Committee on Unity, the Pennsylvania Railroad discontinues the practice of segregating passengers on through trains to the South. The Southern Railway says it will continue to observe "Jim Crow" laws but will not require segregation of African-Americans coming from north of Washington DC. Seaboard Air Line says it will continue to insist on segregated cars.

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October 19, 2010 Amtrak opens a new station facility in Sanford FL to serve Auto-Train passengers.

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October 19, 2017 Union Pacific unveils its 16^th commemorative locomotive, “The Spirit” honoring U.S. Armed Forces. SD70AH-T4C #9206 has been renumbered to 1943. The number and the name recall the year a B-17 bomber “Spirit of the Union Pacific” was paid for with funds raised by UP employees through the sale of war bonds.

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October 19, 2017 CSX closes the hump at its Willard OH yard, converting the facility to flat sorting.

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October 20, 1854 Kingston Locomotive Works, the predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, completes its first locomotive.

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October 20, 1872 The first closed track circuit is installed in Kinzua, PA. Invented by Dr. William Robinson, the circuit is the basic building block of electric railroad signaling systems.

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October 20, 1880 James J. Hill signs a contract with the Dominion of Canada to build a railroad from Montreal to Vancouver within ten years. He will build the Canadian Pacific in five.

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October 20, 1881 Construction of the Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin Railroad (later GTW) begins in Caseville, bringing rail service to Michigan's "Thumb" area.

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October 20, 1883 The Oberlin & LaGrange Railway (OH, later NYC) is chartered.

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October 20, 1890 The Great Northern begins construction of its Pacific Extension at Havre MT.

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October 20, 1891 The Kewuanee, Green Bay & Western (later GB&W) is completed.

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October 20, 1893 Fond du Lac WI experiments with an electric streetcar system. The experiment will end next year.

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October 20, 1900 Construction officially begins on the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon (MI Interurban). Some preparatory work began last month.

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October 20, 1920 The Association of American Railroads issues standards for stenciling reporting marks on the sides of freight cars.

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October 20, 1925 The Boston & Maine uses a diesel switcher for the first time.

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October 20, 1928 The Great Northern "holes through" on the new Cascades Tunnel.

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October 20, 1931 To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, a railway explosion is faked by Japanese troops.

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October 20, 1953 The Pennsylvania Railroad hires its first African-American brakeman. It agrees to eliminate its "Whites Only" rule in hiring conductors.

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October 20, 1954 To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Horseshoe Curve, the Sylvania Electric Products Corporation sponsors a night shot of the Curve using more than 6500 flashbulbs.

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October 20, 1957 The Pennsylvania Railroad runs a "Farewell to Steam" excursion between New York and Sea Girt NJ.

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October 20, 1978 Vicksburg MI loses its agent, the last person working in the passenger depot. The structure, located at the crossing of the former Grand Rapids & Indiana and Grand Trunk Western, is now home to the Vicksburg Historical Society.

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October 20, 1980 The Southern Pacific buys the former Rock Island line from Kansas City to Tucumcari NM. The Katy buys the Rock's former Herrington KS to Dallas line and renames it the "Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas".

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October 18, 1942 Philadelphia trolley route 50 (Rising Sun Avenue-4th and 5th Streets) became PTC/SEPTA's 6th all-PCC route using new 2600-series cars.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? October 18, 1949 On the day I was born, PTC raised its fares to 13 cents cash and began transfer restrictions on bus route C which operated parallel to the Broad Street Subway. The route C bus transfers were good only from Cheltenham and Ogontz to Broad and Olney, Naval Base to Broad and Snyder, and 10th and Somerville to 9th and Erie.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky