Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 24

1830 – The first revenue trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad operate between Baltimore and Endicott's Mills, Maryland, a distance of 13 miles (21 km).
1931 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates the first air conditioned passenger train, the Columbian (pictured), between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
1961 – The Milwaukee Road's Olympian Hiawatha passenger train makes its final run between Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington.
2005 – SNCF announces that a new TGV connection between Paris and Frankfurt will be built; it is expected to open in 2007, with ridership estimates as high as 1.5 million per year.

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