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EVENTS

19th century

1842 Queen Victoria made her first journey by rail ( Slough to Paddington ).

20th century

1920 Baltimore And Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit 's Fort Street Union Depot as the first Passenger Train departs for Washington, DC .

1928 The first tests are performed with the first Rail Detector Car , invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry , in Beacon, New York .

1931 Switzerland 's Brienz Rothorn Bahn reopens after a 17-year stoppage due to World War I .

21st century

2005 CSX Transportation receives authorization from the United States Surface Transportation Board to abandon the former New York Central " High Line " elevated railway through New York City and to transfer ownership of the line and superstructure to the city.

BIRTHS

DEATHS

1867 – Gridley Bryant , Inventor of many basic railroad technologies including Track and wheels, dies (b. 1789 ).

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