Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 2


 * April 2


 * 1853 – The New York Central Railroad (pictured) is formed through the merger of ten smaller railroads in the New York area.
 * 1900 – opens as a  gauge railway connecting Rathenow, Senzke and Paulinenaue, in the German state of Brandenburg.
 * 1910 – in Germany opens the section from Bad Nauheim to Rockenberg.
 * 1914 – Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia.