Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 13
- October 13
- 1877 – Rørosbanen, Norway's oldest mainline railway, opens as a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge railway.
- 1902 – Professor Ernest Rutherford (pictured) of McGill University demonstrates the first wireless communication system between a station and a moving train using a Grand Trunk Railway passenger special operating between Toronto and Montreal.[1]
- 1914 – The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.
- 1988 – Rio Grande Industries, parent company of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, purchases Southern Pacific Railroad; the post-merger company adopts the Southern Pacific name due to brand recognition with shippers.
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[edit]- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 15, 2006. Retrieved October 12, 2006.