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February 7, 1841 The Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, earliest predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is incorporated.

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February 7, 1849 Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri proposes a transcontinental railroad on the floor of the Senate.

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February 7, 1855 The Buffalo & Mississippi and the Northern Indiana & Chicago railroads (later LS&NI, LS&MS, NYC) merge, forming the Northern Indiana Railroad.

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February 7, 1871 The Clayton & Theresa Railroad (NY, later NYC) is chartered.

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February 7, 1880 The first Grand Trunk passenger train leaves Chicago for points east.

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February 7, 1899 The Raquette Lake Railway (NY, later NYC) is chartered.

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February 7, 1922 The van Sweringen brothers buy the Toledo, St. Louis & Western, also known as "The Clover Leaf". It will become part of their Nickel Plate Road.

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February 7, 1940 British railroads are nationalized.

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February 7, 1950 The Illinois Northern is acquired from International Harvester by the Santa Fe, Burlington, Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads.

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February 7, 1954 Detroit's Jefferson Avenue trolley line is converted to bus.

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February 7, 1962 A derailing Pennsylvania Railroad freight train demolishes the Wayland MI passenger depot.

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February 7, 1973 The RTV31 tracked hovercraft is given its first tests in the United Kingdom. The vehicle, an early version of Mag-Lev trains, is cancelled a week later due to budget cuts.

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February 7, 1979 "Supertrain" debuts on NBC. The TV series, patterned after "Love Boat" but set on a super-wide, super-luxurious train, will be a super-bomb. It is the most expensive TV series to date, and its failure coupled with the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games will nearly bankrupt NBC.

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February 7, 1983 Elizabeth Dole, the first female Secretary of Transportation is sworn in.

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February 7, 1995 Santa Fe President Robert Krebs announces that AT&SF stockholders have “overwhelmingly approved” the merger with Burlington Northern.

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February 8, 1855 The first passenger train leaves Halifax NS.

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February 8, 1867 The first through passenger train from Council Bluffs, IA arrives in Chicago over the Chicago & North Western Railway. It is the first such through service to the Missouri River.

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February 8, 1879 The Pennsylvania Railroad tests a passenger train that is heated by a steam boiler located in the baggage car.

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February 8, 1883 Maine’s first railroad, the Bangor, Oldtown & Milford (later MEC) is chartered.

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February 8, 1904 The Interborough Rapid Transit tests a steel subway car on the 2nd Avenue El.

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February 8, 1913 The Great Northern receives its first motor cars, numbered 2300 and 2301.

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February 8, 1918 The USRA announces that it will standardize rolling stock for all new equipment orders.

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February 8, 1985 Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole recommends selling the government's share of Conrail common stock to Norfolk Southern Corporation for $1.2 billion ($3.57 billion in 2025). This is before the formal merger of the Norfolk & Western and Southern Railroads in 1990.

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February 8, 1985 A judge approves the Soo Line’s bid for the Milwaukee Road. The Chicago & North Western withdraws its offer.

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February 8, 1986 A Canadian National freight runs a red signal in Dalehurst AB, possibly because the crew was asleep, and crashes head-on into VIA's train No. 4. Twenty-three people are killed; 71 are injured. Most of the first responders come from Hinton, just over 18 km (11 miles) away.

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February 8, 2002 The last EMD FP45 makes its last revenue run on the Wisconsin Central.

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February 8, 2022 Amtrak’s new ALC42 locomotives make their first run on the westbound “Empire Builder”, in a trip hampered by a component failure on one of the ALC42’s, a fire on one of Amtrak’s passenger cars and a grade crossing collision.

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February 9, 1853 The Cairo & Fulton Railroad (later CA&T, StLIM&S, MP, UP) is chartered to build a railroad across Arkansas from the Missouri State Line to Texas.

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February 9, 1875 The Troy & Greenfield Railroad (later B&M) opens Hoosac Tunnel, the longest railroad tunnel in the United States east of the Mississippi River..

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February 9, 1875 Theodore N. Ely of the Pennsylvania Railroad issues orders that locomotives will henceforth be painted "green". This is the origin of "dark green locomotive enamel" a. k .a. "Brunswick Green" as the standard PRR locomotive color. Number 131, a Class E 4-6-0 will be the first locomotive painted in the new scheme.

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February 9, 1880 The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe reaches Santa Fe NM.

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February 9, 1883 The Northern Adirondack Railroad (later NYC) receives its charter. The line will open in September.

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February 9, 1899 The Minneapolis & St. Lois Railway purchases the Minneapolis, New Ulm & Southern.

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February 9, 1900 In Ford River MI a Chicago & North Western accommodation train running late is hit from the rear by a fast freight running on time. Nine people are killed, most of them not by the collision but by being trapped in the burning debris.

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February 9, 1904 Long Island Railroad President William H. Baldwin approves the electrification of the railroad's western end.

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February 9, 1907 The Peoria & Pekin Traction is bought 50/50 by the Chicago & Alton and the Rock Island, and is renamed the Peoria Railway Terminal.

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February 9, 1935 Budd delivers the trainset that will be most famously known as the "Flying Yankee" to the Boston & Maine.

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February 9, 2010 The Elkhart & Western, owned by Pioneer Railcorp, applies to take over 23 miles of ex-Nickel Plate trackage from Argos to Walkerton IN. Norfolk Southern is expected to hand over the line as soon as March 6.

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February 7, 1954 Detroit's last 12 Peter Witt cars were retired with the conversion of the Jefferson Avenue trolley line. PCC cars provided all service on the 3 remaining lines.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 7, 1954 Kansas City converted trolleybus route 46 (18th Street) to bus operation, through-routed trolleybus routes 40 (Northeast) and 45 (Indiana), and rerouted most trips on the combined route on 18th Street instead of 15th from Indiana to Grand.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 7, 1956 Kansas City discontinued mid-day express service on trolleybus route 43 (Prospect Avenue).? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 8, 1960 Philadelphia bus route S from Cedarbrook to Broad and Olney was further extended east and north from Broad and Olney to Rising Sun and Knorr via bus route 26 and PCC route 50.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Limsky?