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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 20.
Events
[edit]- 1850 – The land grant for construction of the Illinois Central Railroad, the first railroad land grant in the United States,[1] is approved.[2]
- 1853 – Indianapolis's Union Station, the first union station in the United States, opens.
- 1854 – The Great North of Scotland Railway operates its first passenger train over the 39-mile (63 km) route from Kittybrewster, in Aberdeen, to Huntly.
- 1873 – In order to contain the Panic of 1873, brought on by the failure of Jay Cooke and Company in financing the Northern Pacific Railway, the New York Stock Exchange halts all trading and closes for ten days.
- 1997 – RaiLink Southern Ontario begins operations on the former Canadian National Railway Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford.[3]
- 2015 – Opening of one line of the Addis Ababa Light Rail in capital-city of Ethiopia: the first light-rail system to be built in sub-saharan Africa[4][5].
Births
[edit]- 1820 – Alfred Belpaire, inventor of the Belpaire firebox used on steam locomotives (d. 1893).
- 1872 – Death Valley Scotty (born Walter Edward Scott), con man who chartered the Scott Special record-breaking run on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1905 (d. 1954).[6]
Deaths
[edit]- 1935 – William W. Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad 1925-1935 (b. 1866).[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Brownson, Howard Gray, Ph.D. (1967) [1915]. History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870 (first reprint ed.). University of Illinois. p. 157 – via Google Books.
The first land grant ever given by Congress to assist in the construction of a railroad ...
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Sanborn, John Bell (1897). Railroad Land Grants 1850-1857; a Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Master of Letters in History and Economics. University of Wisconsin. p. 59 – via Google Books.
The Illinois Central ... law was approved Sept. 20, 1850 ...
- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 20, 2009. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
- ^ "Sub-Saharan Africa gets its first metro". The Economist. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "Ethiopia: Addis Light Rail Eases Transportation Problem". AllAfrica. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ Signor, John R., compiler (First Quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. 12 (1): 17–29.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society) - ^ "Politicians in Railroading in Indiana". The Political Graveyard. March 10, 2005. Retrieved December 30, 2005.