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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on April 23.
Events
19th century
- 1860 – The Staten Island Railway starts operations in Staten Island, New York; this is now the oldest rapid transit right-of-way in New York City, but it is operated separately from the New York City Subway.[1]
- 1869 – Crews building the Central Pacific Railroad lay 10 miles (16 km) of track in one day.
20th century
21st century
- 2005 – Los Angeles Metrolink opens a new station in Palmdale on the system's Antelope Valley line.
Births
- 1834 – Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad, is born (d. 1928).
Chauncey Depew - 1858 – Leonor F. Loree, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1901-1903, Delaware and Hudson Railway 1907-1938 and Kansas City Southern Railway 1918-1920, is born (d. 1940).
Deaths
References
- ↑ Roess, Roger P.; Sansome, Gene (2013). The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System. Springer. pp. 223–247. ISBN 978-3-642-30484-2. Retrieved 4 October 2015 – via Google Books.
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