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April 7, 1832 The Liggitt’s Gap Railroad (later DL&W) is chartered in Pennsylvania.

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April 7, 1870 The Kalamazoo & South Haven (later NYC, PC) reaches Bloomingdale from Kendall on its way west to South Haven MI.

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April 7, 1871 The Illinois Railroad Act establishes state regulation of railroads and intrastate rates. It is the first of the so-called "Granger Laws".

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April 7, 1872 The Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris Railroad (later NYC) begins operations.

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April 7, 1874 The Pennsylvania Company signs memos of agreement with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Michigan Central, Chicago & Alton, and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads covering the construction of a Union Passenger Depot between Van Buren and Madison Streets in Chicago. They also grant the Michigan Central trackage rights over the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago from the Calumet River.

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April 7, 1903 The roundhouse of the Cincinnati Northern (later CCC&StL, NYC) at Van Wert OH is destroyed when locomotive #108 suffers a boiler explosion. The locomotive was being serviced inside the roundhouse at the time. No one was killed. The locomotive will be rebuilt and returned to service.

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April 7, 1914 The last spike is driven on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (later CN) at Fort Fraser BC, 150 km (93 mile) west of Prince George. This completes the line between Winnipeg and Prince Rupert.

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April 7, 1928 The Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon (MI Interurban) ends operations.

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April 7, 1930 The New York Central opens a new, Art Deco-styled ticket office on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

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April 7, 1934 The purchase of the first "American Flyer"-style passenger cars, the first streamliners to run in New England, is announced by the New Haven Railroad in Railway Age magazine.

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April 7, 1936 A mine placed on or near the tracks 50 miles from Vera Cruz Mexico is detonated as the "Vera Cruz Express" passes over. The explosion and the resulting fire in the wooden cars kills at least 90.

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April 7, 1957 New York City trolleys run for the last time, the last trolleys in New York State.

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April 7, 2008 Chris Guenzler becomes the first regular passenger documented to have ever traveled 1,000,000 miles over all the routes in the Amtrak system since the founding of Amtrak in 1971.

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April 7, 1957 It was the Queensboro Bridge trolley that was the last to run in New York State.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky