November 10, 1853 The Great Western Railway Line (later CN) opens, running 69 kilometers from the Niagara Suspension Bridge to Hamilton ONT.
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November 10, 1856 The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago (later PRR) opens between Warsaw and Plymouth, IN. Also the Cincinnati, Peru & Chicago Railroad (later NKP) opens between Plymouth and La Porte, IN forming a connection with the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad (later LS&MS, NYC) to Chicago.
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November 10, 1875 The Pennsylvania Railroad creates a chemical laboratory in its Altoona Shops complex. The director of the lab, Dr. Charles Benjamin Dudley, will develop the PRR system of standard specifications for materials.
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November 10, 1876 The Centennial Exhibition ends. The Pennsylvania Railroad since May 10 has handled 22,372 trains carrying 2,612,213 passengers at Centennial and West Philadelphia stations. 295,005 pieces of baggage have been handled inbound and 295,532 outbound with the loss of just 26 pieces.
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November 10, 1879 The Wabash and the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern merge, forming the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway.
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November 10, 1891 Granville T. Woods patents an electric railway.
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November 10, 1902 The New York National Land Association agrees with the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Michigan Central Railroads to develop the unsettled part of Michigan's lower peninsula north of Reed City.
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November 10, 1905 The Grand Trunk Milwaukee Ferry Company is incorporated in Wisconsin to operate a car ferry between Grand Haven MI and Milwaukee.
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November 10, 1908 The Pennsylvania Railroad operates a "Farmer's Special" in Eastern Pennsylvania. This will be the first of the PRR's farm education trains operated in conjunction with state agricultural schools.
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November 10, 1909 A monorail built by Louis Brennan is presented to the press at Gillingham, England as a military vehicle due to the high speed at which track can be laid. Even with passengers all on one side of the vehicle, two onboard gyroscopes are strong enough to keep the car level. Despite a series of successful demonstrations (including one in Brooklyn) the fear that the gyroscopes might fail will prevent Brennan's invention from ever being used for transportation.
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November 10, 1910 The Ann Arbor railroad sells excursion tickets to the Michigan-Minnesota football game, which will decide the Western Championship.
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November 10, 1931 Golden Spike ceremony for the joint Western Pacific/Great Northern line through Bieber CA. The most notable feature of this line is the Western Pacific's wye at Keddie CA.
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November 10, 1979 A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight trains derails in Mississauga, Ontario. The train is carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals. The derailment results in the largest peacetime Canadian evacuation.
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November 10, 2007 New Orleans' St. Charles trolley line reopens for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.
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November 10, 2018 The Alton “Telegraph” reports that Union Pacific has closed Mitchell Interlocking Tower, located 6 miles north west of Granite City IL.
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Mark Tomlonson
