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EVENTS

19th century

1830 – In a race between the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad 's '' Tom Thumb '' and a Stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland , the horse and coach wins.

1888 – The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway 's Chaudiere Extension departs for Chaudiere Falls , Ontario (near Ottawa ).

1889 – The Minneapolis And St. Cloud Railroad is reorganized as the Great Northern Railway .

1893 – The Ottawa, Arnprior And Parry Sound Railway opens between Ottawa and Arnprior .

20th century

1936 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight Passenger Train at 112.5 Mph (181 Km/h ) near St. Telesphore, Quebec , Canada .

1982 – The second stage of Brisbane , Australia , Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.

1991 – The last train out of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia , departs with six Canadian National Railway Diesel Locomotive s pulling 64 Railroad Car s and Caboose number 79822.

1999 – Trillium Rail subsidiary Port Colborne Terminal Railway begins operations on 41 Mile s (66 Km ) of Track in Ontario 's Niagara Peninsula .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

1860 – Joseph Locke , construction engineer of Stockton And Darlington Railway and Liverpool And Manchester Railway , chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway , dies (b. 1805 ).

REFERENCES

About.com, '' The Post Office and the History of Railroad Mail Service ''. Retrieved September 18 2005 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Great Northern Railway Historical Society, '' GN History ''. Retrieved September 18 2005 .

Smith, Ivan ( 2005 .