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January 29, 1830 Papers are filed for the first railroad incorporated in Kentucky, the Lexington & Ohio Railroad Company.

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January 29, 1834 In the first use of federal troops to put down a labor dispute, President Jackson calls on the War Department to quell a "riotous assembly" of Irish workers on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

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January 29, 1835 The Morris & Essex Railroad (later DL&W) is incorporated in New Jersey to build from Newark to Morristown and further west.

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January 29, 1871 The Baltimore & Ohio stops charging state tax on through New York-Washington passengers using the Washington Branch. It had continued to collect the tax from passengers even though it hadn't been collected by Maryland for years.

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January 29, 1873 The gap between the eastern and western sections of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad is closed at Hawks Nest WV, completing the line to the Ohio River at Huntington WV.

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January 29, 1880 The Columbus, Hope & Greenburg Railroad (later NYC) is incorporated.

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January 29, 1902 Streetcar service extends from Appleton to Kaukauna WI.

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January 29, 1907 New York Central’s electrification project for Grand Central Terminal reaches High Bridge NY.

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January 29, 1909 The final spike is driven for the Virginian Railway.

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January 29, 1917 The Wabash Railroad leaves Pittsburgh, and the Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad becomes the Pittsburgh & West Virginia.

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January 29, 1927 The U.S. Post Office issues the first private mail contract, to William Boeing and Edward Hubbard to carry mail between Chicago and San Francisco.

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January 29, 1929 The Orient Express becomes trapped in snow in Western Turkey for seven days, an event that will be fictionalized in Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express".

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January 29, 1940 Three trains collide in Osaka, Japan. The resulting explosion near Ajikawaguchi Station kills 181 people.

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January 29, 1963 Alco introduces its "Century" line of diesel Locomotives.

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January 29, 2010 An Illinois woman sues METRA, saying that she was injured by an exploding toilet one year ago today on a METRA train.

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January 29, 2022 WATCO assumes operation of 328 miles of former CN trackage in Wisconsin as well as 143 miles in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wisconsin trackage will operate under the “Fox Valley & Lake Superior” name. Michigan operations will be headquartered in Newberry MI as a new division of the Grand Elk railroad.

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Mark Tomlonson

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, Arch Street lost its trolleys when routes 9 and 48 were converted to bus operation with the new GMCs and were combined to form the present 48 bus route. Tracks were abandoned on Fairmount and Wallace from 15th to 23rd, 31st and 32nd from Columbia to York, and 4th and 5th from Snyder to Ritner but only temporally. All plain 8000s at Allegheny Depot were retired to Southern Depot for scrapping, as were remodeled 8000s from route 26. The remodeled 5200s were transferred to Luzerne Depot for route 60, retiring the last 10 5000s and some plain 5200s. Route 26 buses were transferred to Germantown Depot and route 50 PCC service was increased to compensate for the loss of route 9 in South Philadelphia.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky