November 27, 1955 Philadelphia trolley route 60 (Allegheny Avenue) was relocated from Allegheny Depot to Luzerne.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? November 28, 1936 Philadelphia's last straight Nearside cars were last used on routes 8, 29, 39, and 64. They were replaced by CEOM cars.? ?November 29, 1954 Washington PCC car 1542 was burned on route 20 (Cabin John) and later scrapped.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 7:10 AM Mark Tomlonson via <tomlonson=
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November 27, 1901 A head-on collision on the Wabash near Seneca MI kills 23 people.
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November 28, 1909 Game Wardens in Floodwood, MI are surprised to discover their dogs “keying in” on a coffin waiting on the platform of the passenger station on the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad (later MILW). They open it and find the coffin is not filled with the remains of a hunter killed in an accident, but illegally taken game birds.
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November 28, 1995 Canadian National Railway is privatized, no longer a Crown Corporation.
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November 29, 1847 Michigan's first telegraph line is completed along the Michigan Central Railroad tracks between Detroit and Ypsilanti. The first messages sent are long and range from the price of wheat and putty to news of the Mexican War. Eventually the line will extend to Chicago and be used by the Michigan Central to dispatch trains.
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November 29, 1849 The Michigan Central schedules a second train on its Detroit-New Buffalo line, with a meet in Galesburgh. (That town no longer uses the final "h".)
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November 29, 1871 The Jackson (MI) Citizen reports that the Central Car & Manufacturing Company of that city has shipped its first order: ten platform cars to the Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Railway.
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Mark Tomlonson
