October 29, 1830 News of the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway six weeks earlier reaches Philadelphia.
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October 29, 1889 Illinois Central completes the 4-mile river bridge at Cairo IL.
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October 29, 1938 The interurban Cincinnati & Lake Erie's Columbus Division, running from Dayton to Columbus via Springfield is abandoned.
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October 29, 1948 "Tales Of The Red Caboose" a 15-minute show sponsored by and featuring Lionel trains, premieres on ABC-TV.
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October 29, 1955 Union Pacific shifts its eastern connection from the Chicago & North Western to the Milwaukee Road.
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October 29, 1964 Candidate Barry Goldwater uses Pennsylvania Railroad business car #180 for a whistle stop trip between Harrisburg and Pittsburg.
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October 29, 1966 Chesapeake & Ohio passenger service between Grand Rapids and Traverse City MI ends.
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October 29, 1967 As part of the Northeast Corridor Project, the Pennsylvania cards GG-1 powered trains between New York and Washington DC at 100 mph. The Metroliners remain sidelined with electrical and mechanical problems.
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October 29, 1972 With the arrival of the westbound "James Whitcomb Riley", Amtrak begins using Cincinnati's River Road station.
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October 29, 1983 The iconic Pennsylvania Railroad electric locomotive, the GG-1, operates for what is almost certainly the last time. It is used to pull an excursion train.
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October 29, 2004 Last scheduled run of 1962-vintage former New York Central ACMU cars on Metro-North.
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October 29, 2005 The Saginaw Bay Southern of Tawas MI, affiliated with Lake State Railway, buys 8 miles of former CSX trackage in Michigan's "thumb".
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October 29, 2010 Central Railroad of New Jersey 0-6-0 No. 113 is returned to steam. The anthracite-burning locomotive is one of only two surviving CNJ steamers.
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October 29, 2019 The MTA station at New Rochelle NY is shut down while police investigate a suspicious package. The package contained equipment for the MTA’s new system for reporting suspicious packages.
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Mark Tomlonson
