Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 19
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- 1877 – The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road) opens.[1]
- 1900 – The first section of the Paris Métro opens.
- 1968 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Texas Chief passenger train discontinues station stops at Dallas, Texas.[2]
- 1987 – New short line railroad Red River Valley and Western Railroad begins operations over 667 miles (1,073 km) of former BN tracks in North Dakota.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway. Retrieved on 2005-07-18.
- ^ a b This Month in Railroad History: July. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). Retrieved on 2005-07-18.
