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19th century

1853 – Canada 's Great Western Railway opens the line from Hamilton, Ontario , to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls .

1862 – Chicago And North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin .

1887 – Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's Locomotive to heat the Passenger Car s instead of Coal or Wood stoves in each car.

20th century

1909 – Louis Brennan successfully demonstrates his Gyroscopically -balanced Monorail system, which he designed for military use and patented in 1903, at Gillingham , England .

1979 – A CP Rail train develops a Hot Box and derails 24 cars carrying Hazardous Materials near Mississauga, Ontario ; almost 250,000 people are evacuated for up to five days at a time while cleanup commences.

1996 – Amtrak operates its first Roadrailer in regular revenue service hauled behind the '' Three Rivers '' from Chicago, Illinois , to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

1946 – Patrick H. Joyce , president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946, dies (b. 1879 ).

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