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March 4, 1826 Granite Railway, the first incorporated company to build and operate a rail road in the United States, is chartered in Massachusetts.

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March 4, 1839 The first "express" traffic carried by rail travels between Boston and New York, carried in the pouch of 27-year old William F. Harnden, a former railroad conductor who has come up with the idea.

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March 4, 1869 The Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris Railroad (later NY&H, NYC&HR, NYC) is chartered.

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March 4, 1882 Britain’s first electric trams (streetcars) run in London.

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March 4, 1889 The Grand Trunk carferry "Transit I" is destroyed by fire in its dock at Windsor ON.

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March 4, 1907 The first section of Philadelphia's Market Street Subway-Elevated opens from 69th Street Terminal to 15th Street. (Some sources say March 7)

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March 4, 1908 A new Hours of Service law takes effect: 9 hours for train operators and 16 hours for trainmen.

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March 4, 1913 The Great Northern places its first open observation car on its roster. This is not an open-platform observation car, but a roofless car for tourist use.

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March 4, 1913 Workers connect the main channel truss of the Kenova Bridge, spanning the Ohio River between South Point OH and Kenova WV. The bridge is 4,000 feet long and 82 feet above normal water level.

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March 4, 1925 Films of President Coolidge's inauguration are rushed from Washington to New York on a special train chartered by International News Reel that takes three hours and forty minutes for the trip. The film is developed on the train and is shown in theatres at 4:12 p.m. This beats both Pathe and Fox who have sent their films by plane, but require developing once the plane lands.

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March 4, 1935 Raymond Lowey is given an exclusive contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad. He will not design equipment for any other railroad and PRR will use no other designer.

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March 4, 1946 Robert R. Young publishes his soon-to-be-famous "A hog can cross the country without changing trains, but YOU can't" advertisement as part of his fight to buy the Pullman Company on the theme of a lack of transcontinental cars.

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March 4, 1947 Ms. Friedel Klussman launches a drive to preserve San Francisco's cable cars.

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March 4, 1960 Soo Line passenger train number 8 makes its last run from Minneapolis MN to Sault Ste. Marie MI.

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March 4, 1970 In the single largest train-off petition ever sent to the I.C.C., Penn Central seeks to drop all passenger service west of Buffalo and Harrisburg. A total of 34 trains are to be discontinued, joining 14 others already in various stages of litigation.

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March 4, 1996 A broken switch causes a Wisconsin Central train to derail in Weyauwega WI. The residents of the town will be evacuated until March 20 as crews work to control the resulting fire.

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Mark Tomlonson

March 4, 1951 Brooklyn' s Flatbush Avenue trolley route was converted to bus operation with Mack C-50 buses which could be converted into floating ambulances. A unique feature was that one of the last trolleys and one of the first buses were involved in automobile collisions.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky