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19th Century

1869 – The Golden Spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah , on the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America .

1873 – The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Kansas , reaches Granada, Colorado .

1893 – New York Central locomotive number 999 pulls a Passenger Train between Batavia and Buffalo, New York , reaching 112.5 Mph (181 Km/h ); this is the first time an American train breaks 100 mph (161 km/h).

20th Century

1997 – Amtrak ceases operations of the Chicago - Los Angeles '' Desert Wind '' Passenger Train .

21st Century

2002 – The Potters Bar Rail Crash occurs at Potters Bar , north of London , England , when a northbound Passenger Train derails at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.

2004 – Canadian National Railway acquires Bessemer And Lake Erie Railroad and Duluth, Missabe And Iron Range Railway .

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REFERENCES

Santa Fe Railroad ( 1945 ), ''Along Your Way'', Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.