Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 14

1887 – Aaron Augustus Sargent (pictured), American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad, dies (b. 1827)
1900 – Charles Hayes succeeds Collis P. Huntington as president of the Southern Pacific Railroad after Huntington's death.
1941 – Union Pacific Railroad's M-10001 streamliner trainset is sold for scrap.
1995 – Malaysia's first electric commuter train service, the KTM Komuter, begins with 18 EMUs from Jenbacher Transport serving the Kuala Lumpur - Rawang sector.

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