Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 24
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- 1870 – The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.
- 1877 – Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. Patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car (pictured).
- 1892 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880, dies (b. 1810).
- 1986 – The United States Interstate Commerce Commission denies the merger of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad citing an excessive amount of parallel track as one reason for the denial.
