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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on August 11.
Events
edit19th century
edit- 1866 – The Kansas Pacific Railroad tracks reach Manhattan, Kansas, where westward progress stalls while a bridge is built across the Big Blue River.
- 1883 – The California Southern Railroad receives a court order in its favor ordering the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) to allow it to cross SP tracks at Colton, California.[1]
20th century
edit- 1939 – C. P. Couch succeeds his brother Harvey C. Couch as president of Kansas City Southern Railway.
- 1995 – The first fatal accident on Toronto's subway system, under the auspices of the Toronto Transit Commission, the Russell Hill subway accident, claims three lives.
21st century
editBirths
edit- 1869 – Hale Holden, president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1914-1918 and 1920–1929, chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad 1932–1939, is born (d. 1940).[2][3]
Deaths
edit- 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, dies (b. 1835).
References
edit- ^ Duke, Donald & Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. p. 27. ISBN 0-87095-009-6.
- ^ "Hale Holden". Railway Age Gazette. 57 (10): 428. September 4, 1914. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ^ Ingham, John N. (1983). Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders. Vol. 2. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 594–5. ISBN 0-313-23908-8. Retrieved December 2, 2013.