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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 24.

Events

1870 – The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.
1877 – Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car.

1937 – Walter Kidde is appointed as trustee of the bankrupt New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway.^[1]
1986 – The United States Interstate Commerce Commission denies the merger of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad citing an excessive amount of parallel track as one reason for the denial.
1996 – Louis Gallois, former president of the Aerospatiale, becomes president of the SNCF in replacement of Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, imprisoned for being suspected of being part of the Elf Aquitaine scandal.

2013 – An Alvia high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol, Galicia, derails at high speed on a curve, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela.

See also: Santiago de Compostela derailment.

1853 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad, dies (b. 1811).
1883 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847-1853, dies (b. 1809).
1892 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880, dies (born 1810).^[2]

^ Mohowski, Robert E. (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7.
^ Atchison, Topeka (January 1, 1903). The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Auxiliary Companies: Annual Meetings, Directors and Officers. Vol. 8. Santa Fe Railway Company. p. 10.