Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 19

1806 – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, designer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Thomas Viaduct (still in use today), is born (d. 1878).
1827 – The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.
1908 – Korekimi Nakamura begins his term as the second president of South Manchuria Railway.
1941 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Columbian passenger train route is extended frm Jersey City-Washington to Jersey City-Chicago.

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