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February 28, 1815 George Stephenson receives a Patent for his second steam locomotive, an improved version of the principles worked out in the "Blusher" last July.

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February 28, 1827 The Baltimore & Ohio, America's first passenger railroad is chartered.

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February 28, 1847 Maine Governor Joshua L. Chamberlain signs the charter of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad. Despite never getting as far as Moosehead Lake, the 33-mile railroad will remain in continuous operation through 2009.

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February 28, 1852 Because of a gap in the Pennsylvania Railroad, over 440 passengers stay each night at the Hollidaysburg Inn. Five hundred wagons and 2,600 horses are used to ferry passengers and freight across the gap.

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February 28, 1866 The Canada Southern Railway is incorporated in Canada from the Erie & Niagara Extension Railway.

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February 28, 1871 The Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Railroad (later PM, C&O, CSX) reaches Grand Junction MI.

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February 28, 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt signs legislation authorizing a single, Union Station in Washington DC rather than two stations, for the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads.

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February 28, 1906 A gas-electric railcar built by Strang, the "Ogerita", leaves Weehawken Terminal bound for San Francisco. The car, which includes a back-up battery and can make 48 mph, has been testing on various Pennsylvania Railroad branch lines.

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February 28, 1908 First test run through Grand Trunk's St. Clair tunnel using electric locomotives.

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February 28, 1920 The Transportation Act is passed, allowing the ICC to set intrastate rates in some cases and forming the Railway Labor Board. It also sets a date for the end of USRA control.

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February 28, 1931 The Cleveland Southwestern & Columbus Railway (interurban) quits.

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February 28, 1931 The Detroit, Toledo & Ironton is sold to Pennroad Corporation (PRR subsidiary) and the Wabash Railroad.

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February 28, 1947 The Illinois Central withdraws the “Green Diamond” trainset from service between Chicago and St. Louis.

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February 28, 1979 Last day for a freight agent on the Wabash Railroad at Topeka IN.

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February 28, 1986 The last official move is made at Canadian National's Spadina Roundhouse in Toronto. The facility will later be demolished to make room for the Skydome.

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February 28, 2022 The last passenger-carrying South Shore train runs on 11^th Street in Michigan City IN. The new alignment has no street running and is double-tracked.

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March 1, 1833 A meeting of cab owners and drivers is held at Tammany Hall to protest the occupation of streets by the New York & Harlem Railroad. At the end of the meeting the crowd spills out of the hall and tears up a piece of track.

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March 1, 1837 The Long Island Railroad opens between Jamaica and Hicksville NY.

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March 1, 1852 The Buffalo & State Line Railroad (later NYC) is completed between Buffalo and the PA/OH state line. Because of Pennsylvania Law, it is built to a 56.5" gauge between Buffalo and the NY/PA state line, 60" between the state line and Erie, and 58" between Erie and the Ohio line. (Some sources say Feb. 22.)

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March 1, 1869 First train into Grand Rapids MI on the Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids Railroad (later LS&MS, NYC, PC).

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March 1, 1876 The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe reaches Pueblo CO.

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March 1, 1877 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the regulation of railroads.

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March 1, 1881 A passenger train wrecks near Macon MO on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad (later CB&Q, BNSF) killing 40. Nine more persons are killed when the wreck train crashes on its way to the accident.

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March 1, 1884 The Norwood & Montreal Railroad (later RW&O, NYC, PC, CR, CSX) is organized.

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March 1, 1888 The Lartigue Railway Construction Company opens a 14.5-kilometer steel-railed monorail. It links the town of Ballybunion, on the west coast of Ireland, with the market town of Listowel. The only passenger-carrying monorail in the British Isles for many years, it will run until 1924 when operational costs and road transport will force it out of business.

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March 1, 1893 The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad leases the Old Colony Railroad.

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March 1, 1898 The "Maritime Express" between Montreal and Halifax begins service on the Intercolonial Railway. Later, Canadian National will operate the train.

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March 1, 1901 The Elberfeld-Barmen Suspension Railway, also known as the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, a monorail system with the cars suspended below the rail, opens in Elberfeld Germany.

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March 1, 1899 The St. Joseph, South Bend & Southern Railroad (later MC) begins operations on the former tracks of the Indiana & Lake Michigan in southwest lower Michigan and north-central Indiana.

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March 1, 1907 The Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern, one of the largest but ultimately one of weakest interurbans in the Midwest, is formed from several predecessor companies.

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March 1, 1907 Sometime this month (date undetermined) the Pennsylvania Railroad will issue a rule that all passenger stations must be equipped with cats for rodent control.

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March 1, 1909 The Pennsylvania Railroad names its new New York Terminal "Pennsylvania Station".

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March 1, 1910 An avalanche sweeps away 2 Great Northern passenger trains that have been snow-bound near Wellington WA since February 23. Ninety-six people are killed, the last body not recovered until July. It's the worst snowslide accident in U.S. history and the worst natural disaster in Washington State.

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March 1, 1911 Grand Trunk begins operating the Oshawa Railway in Oshawa ON. Next year it will purchase the line.

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March 1, 1912 The Pennsylvania Company assumes control of the 3-foot gauge Ohio River & Western.

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March 1, 1913 The Federal Valuation Act takes effect, authorizing the Interstate Commerce Commission to set a value on the nation's railroads for rate-making purposes. In future years these Valuation Reports will be excellent tools for railroad historians.

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March 1, 1914 The Grand Rapids & Indiana ends its operation of the Traverse City, Leelanau & Manistique Railroad between Traverse City and Northport MI.

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March 1, 1920 USRA control of railroads ends.

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March 1, 1920 The Pennsylvania Railroad ends its Lines East/Lines West structure and forms instead four regions. It also takes this opportunity to restructure most of the corporation.

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March 1, 1924 The Pennsylvania & Ohio Electric Railway (Conneaut to Ashtabula, 14 miles) quits.

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March 1, 1925 The Chesapeake & Ohio moves from Dearborn Station to Central Station in Chicago.

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March 1, 1929 Sixty-nine railroads buy the American Railway Express Company and rename it Railway Express Agency.

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March 1, 1933 The Pennsylvania Railroad imposes an unpaid furlough of six days per month to spread work among its remaining employees. In addition, the PRR cancels some long-distance trains due to lack of business following the closing of many banks throughout the Midwest.

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March 1, 1934 The former Mansfield (OH) Railway Light & Power Company's interurban route is abandoned by the Ohio Public Service Company. The city lines will soldier on for another three years.

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March 1, 1938 In this month’s issue, Railroad magazine reports that two retired Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern interurban cars are being used as part of a dance hall in Alexandria IN.

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March 1, 1948 The Pennsylvania Railroad places their take on a recreation car on display. Designed by Raymond Loewy, the car includes a children's playroom, newsreel theatre, pinball game, and a lounge with zebra-hide chairs.

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March 1, 1951 The USO Lounge at Chicago Union Station, which has been closed since 1947, reopens for Korean War traffic.

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March 1, 1955 Peter Zars earns the distinction of being the first person born aboard the California Zephyr.

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March 1, 1955 The Pennsylvania Railroad builds a new TOFC facility at Cincinnati. The new yard will handle Chicago-Cincinnati and New York-Cincinnati traffic.

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March 1, 1977 Turboliners take over the full run of Amtrak's "Adirondack" ending the service of the rebuilt Alco PA-4's and dome cars.

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March 1, 2005 A new international freight train departs Hohhot, China. It will arrive in Duisburg, Germany near Frankfurt, having traveled over 8,000 miles across 6 countries in 15 days: China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany. The train will operate twice monthly.

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March 1, 2011 The first Metro-North M-8 cars enter service.

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March 2, 1831 An Act of Congress authorizes the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to extend a branch into the District of Columbia.

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March 2, 1836 In the earliest "cornfield meet" for a which a full date was recorded, a passenger and freight on the Camden & Amboy Railroad meet head on near Burlington NJ. The engines crews leap to safety and no one is injured.

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March 2, 1863 Congress adopts a track gauge of 4' 8 ?" for the Union Pacific Railroad over the objections of ex-Illinois Central attorney and President Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln had lobbied for a 5' gauge, but the narrower, "Stephenson" gauge is adopted to make the railroad less useful to the 5' gauge railroads of the Confederacy. This action will lead indirectly to the gauge being adopted as standard throughout North America.

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March 2, 1866 The Hudson River Railroad and the New York & Harlem Railroad begin operating into Albany.

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March 2, 1893 The United States Safety Appliance Act is signed into law, mandating that all cars in interchange service be equipped with air brakes, automatic couplers and grab irons.

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March 2, 1902 The first segment of the James Bay RR (later Canadian Northern, Canadian National) is opened between Parry Sound ON and Canada Atlantic Junction, 3.7 miles.

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March 2, 1902 The Pennsylvania Railroad begins overnight sleeper service between Chicago and Muncie, IN.

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March 2, 1913 The New York Central’s electrification project reaches Croton, NY.

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March 2, 1925 To aid automobile and truck drivers, the Joint Board of State & Federal Highway Officials establishes a numbering system for Federally-supported highways.

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March 2, 1931 The Chesapeake & Ohio opens a new Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs WV.

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March 2, 1936 Pennsylvania Railroad K-4s #3768 receives a streamlined tender to match its Raymond Loewy designed shroud applied a week and a half earlier. The locomotive, nicknamed "The Torpedo" by crews, begins an exhibition tour.

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March 2, 1939 The Great Northern receives its first EMD diesel.

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March 2, 1950 The Nickel Plate runs its first diesel-powered mainline freight, as two yard switchers are pressed into service to handle a train from Peru to Michigan City IN.

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March 2, 1958 The last local trolley line to operate in the state of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's #10 (Wells) line, is converted to diesel bus operation.

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March 2, 1958 The Baltimore & Ohio Introduces Budd "Slumbercoaches" on its Baltimore-Chicago "Columbian".

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March 2, 1970 Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle merge to form the Burlington Northern. (later BNSF) (Some sources say March 3)

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March 2, 2024 A Norfolk Southern trains derails in Lower Saucon Township PA in the Lehigh Valley. The first train is subsequently struck by two other NS trains. There were no injuries and no chemical spills.

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Mark Tomlonson

February 28, 1952 The Pennsylvania Railroad announced plans to abandon the Whitemarsh branch from Fort Washington to the Chestnut Hill branch connection between Allens Lane and St. Martin's because of low ridership despite the buildup of new territory in Cedarbrook. The start of PTC bus route X, the re-equipping of trolley routes 6 and 23 with new PCC cars, the restructuring of bus routes H, H-1, and S, and the start of new bus route XH, which all connected with the Reading Railroad's Chestnut Hill branch have cut into the PRR's ridership.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 28, 1953 Boston's first PCC car 3001, the only one built by St. Louis Car Company and known as the Queen Mary, was scrapped at Everett Shops because of a lack of a center-door on the left side and other non-standard features. It was built with Brooklyn's PCC cars.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? March 1, 1955 National City Lines took over Philadelphia Transportation Company and named Douglas H. Pratt, president of Baltimore Transportation Company, as new president.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? March 1, 1964 Port Authority of Allegheny County Transportation took over Pittsburgh Railways and the city's 31 independent bus companies.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dennis M Linsky?