March 10, 1858 The Pittsburgh Ft. Wayne & Chicago (later PRR) connects to the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh, despite opposition and interference from local citizens.
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March 10, 1862 The St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (later MSt.P&P, GN) is organized.
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March 10, 1865 The State of Michigan transfers an additional land grant to the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. This brings the total land grant to 850,960 acres although no land will actually be granted south of Grand Rapids.
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March 10, 1907 The Pere Marquette roundhouse at Traverse City MI is destroyed by fire.
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March 10, 1910 A home for aged and disabled former railroad employees opens in Highland ParK IL.
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March 10, 1917 Police interrupt a former German sailor and two other men as they try to sabotage Pennsylvania Railroad telegraph lines near Wissinoming, PA.
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March 10, 1923 Norfolk & Western takes delivery of its first Y3a class locomotive, a 2-8-8-2 built by Alco.
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March 10, 1930 Near Lakehurst NJ an Army blimp succeeds in picking up 4 mail sacks from the roof of a Pennsylvania Railroad train moving at 55 mph. The trials are held to help newsreel companies speed delivery of films to theatres.
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March 10, 1933 Last run of the Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway (Interurban)
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March 10, 1940 Missouri Pacific's streamlined "Eagles" begin operations.
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March 10, 1945 New York Central accepts its first 4-8-4 "Niagara", #6000, at the Alco factory in Schenectady NY.
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March 10, 1976 An LRC train breaks the unofficial Canadian rail speed record: 129 mph (207 km/h) on CP Rail’s Adirondack Subdivision between St. Jean and Delson. The previous record had been set by a steam locomotive pulling a lightweight passenger train on Canadian Pacific's Winchester Sub near St. Telesphore in 1936.
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March 10, 1993 Amtrak's eastbound "Wolverine" strikes a propane truck at a private crossing between Comstock and Galesburg MI. The collision kills the truck driver and injures the engineer. The accident leads directly to the closing of all private crossings in that area and the re-routing of the adjacent county road.
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March 10, 1995 The Union Pacific announces its intention to purchase the Chicago & North Western.
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March 10, 2009 Canadian National routes its first two trains over the former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern. CN's purchase of the line was finalized on January 31. Traffic is expected to grow to six daily trains in the near future.
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March 10, 2020 Amtrak suspends Acela service between Washington and New York in an attempt to slow the spread of the Corona virus.
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Mark Tomlonson
