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19th century

 * 1860 – The Staten Island Railway starts operations in Staten Island, New York; this is now the oldest rapid transit right-of-way in New York City, but it is operated separately from the New York City Subway.
 * 1869 – Crews building the Central Pacific Railroad lay 10 miles (16 km) of track in one day.

21st century

 * 2005 – Los Angeles Metrolink opens a new station in Palmdale on the system's Antelope Valley line.

Births

 * [[Image:CMDepew.jpg|thumb|Chauncey Depew]] 1834 – Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad, is born (d. 1928).
 * 1858 – Leonor F. Loree, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1901-1903, Delaware and Hudson Railway 1907-1938 and Kansas City Southern Railway 1918-1920, is born (d. 1940).