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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 11.
Events
19th century
20th century
Promotional flyer published by the Santa Fe to commemorate the Scott Special.
- 1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles.[1][2]
- 1910 – Construction begins on the Sheridan Railway in Sheridan, Wyoming.
- 1914 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Baghdad Railway opens.
- 1942 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.
- 1993 – The last empty freight cars belonging to each other's railway networks are transferred across the closed border between Turkey and Armenia and returned to their respective railways.
- 2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
21st century
- 2005 – Amtrak resumes limited Acela Express service with four daily departures each from New York and Washington, DC.[3]
- 2006 – A series of bombs explode aboard commuter trains on the Mumbai Suburban Railway in India.
- 2006 – A derailment and subsequent fire on the Blue Line of the Chicago 'L' system closes the line just after 5:00 PM Central time.[4][5]
- 2006 – Daqin Railway becomes the first Chinese railway company to be listed on a domestic Chinese stock exchange when the railway's application was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.[6]
Births
- 1827 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).
Deaths
References
- ↑ 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) - ↑ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.
- ↑ Amtrak (July 11, 2005). "Acela Express Returns to Service". Retrieved July 13, 2005.
- ↑ Tribune staff writers (July 12, 2006). "Smoke, fire fill subway". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 12, 2006.
- ↑ CNN (July 12, 2006). "Chicago subway train derails". Retrieved July 12, 2006.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ↑ China Knowledge (July 13, 2006). "Daqin Railway first rail company listed on Mainland". Retrieved July 13, 2006.
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