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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 10.

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1853 – Canada's Great Western Railway opens the line from Hamilton, Ontario, to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.
1862 – Chicago and North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin.^[1]
1887 – Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's locomotive to heat the passenger cars instead of coal or wood stoves in each car.

1909 – Louis Brennan successfully demonstrates his gyroscopically-balanced monorail system, which he designed for military use and patented in 1903, at Gillingham, England.
1937 – Yatsumori Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is opened.
1979 – 1979 Mississauga train derailment A CP Rail train develops a hot box and derails 24 cars carrying hazardous materials near Mississauga, Ontario; almost 250,000 people are evacuated for up to five days at a time while cleanup commences.
1996 – Amtrak operates its first Roadrailer in regular revenue service hauled behind the Three Rivers from Chicago, Illinois, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[2]

1946 – Patrick H. Joyce, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931-1946, dies (b. 1879).

^ Follmar, Joe; August, Paul (Winter 2003). "The C&NW in the Fox River Valley". North Western Lines. 30 (3): 26–49. ISSN 0279-5000.
^ Johnston, Bob (February 1997). "Amtrak RoadRailers get rolling". Trains Magazine. 57 (2): 26.