Events

19th century

• 1835 – The Ludwigs-Eisenbahn starts the first regular passenger service between Nuremberg and Fürth using a steam locomotive.

20th century

• 1906 – The Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad jointly form the Pacific Fruit Express Company (PFE) refrigerator car line.
• 1946 – The power car from the M-10002 streamliner trainset is sold to Northrup-Hendy for gas turbine train testing.
• 1993 – Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing six and injuring 19. The event becomes known as the Long Island Rail Road massacre.

21st century

• 2005 – QJ 7081 pulls the world's last regularly scheduled passenger train behind a steam locomotive on a mainline railroad when it pulls a train between Daban and Chabuga, China.

Births

• 1842 – George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1903?1909, is born (d. 1910).

Deaths

References

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