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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 7.

Events

19th century

• 1853 – The Arkansas Midland Railroad is created by an act of the Arkansas legislature.
• 1874 – The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway, the predecessor of the Miami Valley Railway, is incorporated.

Driving the last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway

• 1885 – The last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway is driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• 1889 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway consolidates several of its subsidiary railroads in California into the Southern California Railway.

20th century

• 1901 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in Arkansas.
• 1903 – Pacific Electric Railroad opens the Whittier line serving Downtown Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos.
• 1978 – The Illinois Railway Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Births

• 1944 – E. Hunter Harrison, CEO of Illinois Central Railroad (1993-1998), Canadian National Railway (2003-2009), Canadian Pacific Railway (2012-2017), and CSX Corporation (2017), is born (d. 2017).

Deaths

• 1904 – R. J. Billinton, Locomotive, Carriage, Wagon and Marine Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1890-1904, dies (b. 1844).
• 1907 – Jesús García Corona, a Mexican railroad engineer, is blown up driving a burning dynamite train away from a populated area of Nacozari, Sonora.