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February 14, 1834 King Ludwig I of Bavaria approves the first railroad in Germany.

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February 14, 1842 Author Charles Dickens arrives in New York, after traveling from Boston via railroad and steamship.

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February 14, 1857 The State of Michigan awards a federal land grant between Grand Rapids and Little Traverse Bay to the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

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February 14, 1867 The first car of flour shipped using the new Blue Line, a cooperative traffic agreement among several railroads, arrives in Boston from St. Louis via the New York Central, Great Western of Canada, Michigan Central and Chicago & North Western. The line also operates over the Illinois Central, St. Louis, Alton & Chicago, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Hudson River Railroad, Boston & Albany, Housatonic, Worcester & Nashua, and Providence & Worcester railroads.

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February 14, 1886 California orange groves ship the first trainload of fruit to the east.

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February 14, 1891 The last spike in the construction of the Great Northern is driven at Blaine WA.

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February 14, 1896 The Northern Pacific Railway opens Portland (OR) Union Station.

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February 14, 1897 Railroad reformer Robert R. Young is born. Chairman of the Board of Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Missouri Pacific, Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette, Wheeling & Lake Erie and finally New York Central, he is well known for his advertising campaign: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains but you can't".

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February 14, 1905 Workers tunneling for the Pennsylvania Railroad blast a hole under the Erie Railroad's Weehawken NJ yard. A number of freight cars are swallowed up by the hole, but no one is injured.

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February 14, 1915 The first position-light signals are placed in service between Overbrook and Bryn Mawr PA. Designed to increase signal visibility in electrified areas, they will eventually become a Pennsylvania Railroad standard.

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February 14, 1923 Great Lakes carferry "Ann Arbor #4" encounters a gale soon after leaving Frankfort MI. She turns around and heads back, but her load of freight cars break loose and careen about the deck. A huge wave hits her and swamps her. She founders against the Frankfort breakwater. No hands are lost, but some of the crew are injured.

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February 14, 1927 The first New York Central "J-1" Hudson locomotive is outshopped by Alco.

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February 14, 1932 The Kenosha Electric Railway ends operations. Streetcars will return to Kenosha in 2000.

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February 14, 1937 The first of 3 “buoy” trains moves on the Great Western Railway from Chepstow to Newport, England. The 24 navigation buoys in each train move on drop-center flat cars. The buoys are so wide they are placed on their sides and traffic on the adjacent track is diverted.

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February 14, 1998 In Yaounde, Cameroon, an oil train collides with another freight train. After the wreck, a person trying to scavenge some of the waste oil tosses a lit cigarette and sets off an explosion that kills 120.

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February 14, 2004 Tower 17 closes in Texas, the last in the state and the next to the last west of the Mississippi.

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February 14, 2007 A TGV train sets a new world speed record for conventional flanged-wheel-on-rail trains of 553 km/h (343.6 mph) breaking the 513.5 km/h record set in May 1990. The record will be broken again when preparations are made for an all-out attempt in April 2007.

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February 14, 2024 Following a rally celebrating the Kansas City Chief’s Super Bowl victory at Kansas City Union Station, gunfire erupts. One person, a local radio personality, is killed. Twenty-three others, including 9 children, are hurt.

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February 15, 1833 The Western Railroad of Massachusetts (later B&A) is chartered to build between Worchester MA and the New York state line.

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February 15, 1854 The Pennsylvania Railroad opens its Pittsburgh to Harrisburg main line, including Horseshoe curve.

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February 15, 1855 The Joliet & Chicago Railroad (later C&M, StlA&C, C&A, GM&O, ICG, CN) is chartered. It will be completed next year.

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February 15, 1857 The Michigan legislature ratifies the land grant awarded last June for the Flint & Pere Marquette (later PM, C&O, CSX) railroad.

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February 15, 1870 Ground is broken for the Northern Pacific Railroad near Duluth MN.

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February 15, 1872 The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St Louis Railway (later PRR) grants the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and the Northern Railway of Illinois (later C&NW) use of its tracks between Canal Street and its Chicago passenger station.

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February 15, 1873 George M. Pullman meets with Midland Railway officials to establish Pullman service in Great Britain. The first attempt is not a success as passengers refuse to pay the extra Pullman fare.

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February 15, 1904 Passenger service on the Grand Rapids & Indiana ends between Milton Junction and Luther MI.

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February 15, 1916 The Ft. Wayne & Springfield (Interurban) is sold. It will re-emerge as the Ft. Wayne & Decatur.

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February 15, 1918 The Pennsylvania Railroad signs a permanent agreement with the New Haven giving NH access to Penn Station.

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February 15, 1926 Canadian National begins service between Kamloops and Kewlowna BC.

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February 15, 1937 The Indiana Service Corporation abandons passenger service on the former Toledo & Chicago north of Ft. Wayne to Waterloo, Garrett and Kendallville. Freight service will continue through May, 1945.

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February 15, 1946 Sleeping cars return to Great Northern trains with 351-450 mile runs.

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February 15, 1950 The Pennsylvania Railroad says 90% of all of its passenger trains are now pulled by diesel locomotives, as well as 65% of its freight trains.

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February 15, 1953 Kansas City Public Service ends trolley service in Kansas. Trolleys remain for a time in Kansas City MO.

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February 15, 1955 The Mechanical Research Committee, made up of representatives from six roads says four of its members will order new lightweight equipment. The Pennsylvania Railroad will order a "tubular" train from Budd, New York Central and New Haven will look into "Train X" or something similar and the Santa Fe is looking at high-level cars for its "El Capitan". Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio do not weigh in.

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February 15, 1957 The New York Central runs its last train between Ottawa ON and the U.S. border at Cornwall.

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February 15, 1997 The former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton lines making up Grand Trunk's Flatrock Subdivision south of Diann become part of the Indiana & Ohio Railway. Grand Trunk retains rights north of Diann.

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February 15, 2005 Phoenix breaks ground for its new light-rail system.

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February 15, 2012 Amtrak begins 110 mph operation on its line between Kalamazoo MI and Porter IN. This is the first Amtrak line outside of the Northeast Corridor to operate at those speeds.

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February 15, 2016 The first train arrives in Tehran, Iran from China. The rail journey is 30 days shorter than one made by sea. The monthly freight train is part of a planned “One Belt One Road” program to use existing rails to connect China and Europe.

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February 16. 1847 The State of Illinois sells a portion of the Northern Cross Railroad (later Wabash) between Springfield and Meredosia. It is the only portion of the state railroad, chartered in 1837, to be completed. The new owners find the line worn out and revert to horse or ox power for the trains. (Some sources say April 27)

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February 16, 1865 The Cairo & St. Louis Railroad (later M&O, GM&O, IC, CN) is chartered.

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February 16, 1869 The Michigan Lake Shore Railroad (later C&WM, PM, C&O, CSX) is incorporated in Michigan to build from Ferrysburg through Grand Haven to Holland.

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February 16, 1881 The Canadian Pacific Railway is formed. James Stephen is its first President and James J. Hill is on the board. Hill will leave CP when a route change takes it out of the United States. He will then build the Great Northern.

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February 16, 1897 The "Pere Marquette", first all-steel carferry on the Great Lakes, makes its maiden voyage from Ludington MI to Manitowoc WI.

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February 16, 1907 The New York Central's "Brewster Express" pulled by two S-1 electric locomotives derails at 205th Street in the Bronx, killing 21 and injuring 150. (Some sources list the casualties as 24 killed and 140 injured.) The wreck is blamed on the engines’ lateral force shearing spikes and causing the rails to spread. The electric locomotives will be rebuilt from 1-D-1 to 2-D-2 configuration and limited to 35 mph on curves.

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February 16, 1911 Due to claims resulting from the Kingsland Wreck last September, the stockholders of the Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley agree to reorganize as the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company.

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February 16, 1925 The Michigan Central opens a new bridge over Niagara Falls, replacing the previous span built in 1855.

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February 16, 1929 The Toledo, Peoria & Western drops all mail contracts, as well as rider cars on freight trains. Caboose passengers will continue to be carried for a short time.

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February 16, 1996 An Amtrak train and a MARC commuter train collide in Silver Spring, MD. Eleven people are killed. The crash, along with a crash on New Jersey Transit one week earlier that killed three, leads to a broader usage of the "Delay in Block" rule, revised standards for cab-end construction and larger windows in passenger equipment for easier evacuation.

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February 16, 2004 Jervis Langdon dies. Mr. Langdon was appointed a trustee of Penn Central following its bankruptcy and later served as its President. He was one of the movers and shakers behind the Chesapeake & Ohio's purchase of the Baltimore & Ohio, although he left the new company shortly thereafter to join the reorganized Rock Island.

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February 16, 2010 A perfume manufacturer announces what it calls "the first perfume dedicated to a rail line". The manufacturer claims to have captured the essence of Manhattan's former New York Central High Line, now a park.

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February 16, 2013 Amtrak takes operational control of the State-owned former New York Central line between Kalamazoo and Dearborn MI.

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February 14, 1963 Philadelphia Transportation Company raised its cash fares to 25 cents; transfers were free.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 14, 1964 A huge dynamite explosion wrecked a 96-car freight train in Florida.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 15, 1953 As a result of the closure of trolley service in Kansas City, Kansas, the 5th and Richmond car barn was converted to a bus garage.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 16, 1957 Chicago PCC route 36 (Broadway) was converted to bus operation, ending trolley service on State Street and leaving route 22 (Clark-Wentworth) as Chicago's only remaining trolley route.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky?