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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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