Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 21

1836 – Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, is opened.
1877 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland, the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.
1904 – The Trans-Siberian railway (map) is completed.
2000 – Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.

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