Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 11

1930 – Samuel Morse Felton, Jr., president of Chicago and Alton Railroad 1899-1908, Chicago Great Western Railway 1909-1925, dies (b. 1853).
2004 – 191 people are killed when a series of bombs explode on commuter trains in Madrid, Spain.
2005 – A railgrinder working westbound on the Union Pacific mainline sideswipes an eastbound BNSF Railway intermodal train at Rochelle, Illinois; the trains don't derail but a few containers are destroyed. The entire event is recorded on the Trains Magazine Rochelle webcam.

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