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October 24, 1853 The Cleveland & Toledo RR (later LS&MS) is completed, Cleveland to Sandusky OH. Also today, the Junction Railroad (later LS&MS) opens between Ohio City and Toledo OH.

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October 24, 1859 The New Albany & Salem is reorganized as the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad (later CIL, L&N).

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October 24, 1871 Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad opens a branch between La Harpe and Lomax on the Chicago Burlington & Quincy.

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October 24, 1877 The first trials of rioting strikers in Pittsburgh gets underway.

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October 24, 1910 The Pennsylvania Railroad takes delivery of its first P54 suburban coach. The all-steel cars are assigned to local service out of Penn Station.

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October 24, 1918 The secretary to the Mayor of Boston boards the 20^th Century Limited with enough flu vaccine to inoculate 17,000 San Franciscans. It is hoped that the vaccine will halt the spread of the “Spanish” flu pandemic. The vaccine will prove to be useless.

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October 24, 1956 The world's first PCC car, Brooklyn 1001, is given to the Shore Line Trolley Museum, its present home.

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October 24, 1959 Pullman service ends on the Bangor & Aroostook.

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October 24, 1959 Last run of the Canadian Pacific/Boston & Maine "Red Wing".

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October 24, 1959 Last in-service run of Norfolk & Western 611, class J 4-8-4 Northern. The last run is an excursion, a precursor to the locomotive’s extensive fan trip career.

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October 24, 1995 The sale of the former Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago trackage between Hartford and Paw Paw to Pioneer Railcorp is finalized. Pioneer will operate the line as "West Michigan Railroad Company".

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October 24, 1996 Wisconsin Central buys the ex-Chicago & North Western lines in the U.P. from UP.

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Mark Tomlonson

October 24, 1971 SEPTA's Red Arrow division closed the Llanerch car house, which was isolated from the system after the Ardmore trolley line was converted to bus operation. on December 29, 1966. All trolleys were relocated to,the 69th Street shops of the Market-Frankford line in Upper Darby, which were owned by the City division. Llanerch car house was demolished in 1973 and was replaced by a Target discount department store.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky?