November 3, 1842 First recorded instance of a meal being served on board a moving train. The Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad are served a catered cold lunch on an inaugural inspection trip between Hancock and Cumberland MD.
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November 3, 1848 First railroad on the South American continent opens, in Guyana.
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November 3, 1873 Continental Improvement Company completes the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad from Fife Lake to Little Traverse Bay (Petoskey). The line north of Walton Junction will not be operated during winter.
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November 3, 1893 The Liberty Bell, loaded on a flatcar and on its way home to Philadelphia from the Chicago Columbian exhibition, stalls on a steep grade on streetcar tracks in Philadelphia. Bystanders fill the two streetcars being used to push the flat and enough ballast is obtained for the cars to make the grade.
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November 3, 2003 The New York City subway retires the last of its 40-year-old "Redbird" cars.
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November 3, 2008 CN announces it is buying some of the rail and ferry operations of Quebec Railway Corporation. Included in the buy: Chemin de fer de la Matapedia et du Golfe, New Brunswick East Coast Railway, Ottawa Central Railway and the rail ferry firm Compagnie de gestiion de Matane Inc.
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November 3, 2011 The State of Florida buys a 61-mile line from CSX for its SunRail service. The line will connect DeLand, Orlando and Poinciana.
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Mark Tomlonson
