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19th century

 * 1831 – Matthias W. Baldwin displays a model steam locomotive at the Philadelphia City Museum a year before building his first full-size locomotive for a working railroad.
 * 1831 – The New York and Harlem Railroad is incorporated.
 * 1832 – The Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, the first railroad on Long Island, New York, is incorporated to build from the East River in Brooklyn to Jamaica.

20th century

 * 1937 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue passenger train is re-equipped with cars rebuilt in the B&O's company shops.
 * 1946 – The Exposition Flyer, travelling at 80 mph (130 km/h), runs into a stationary train in Naperville, Illinois, killing 45 and injuring 36. See: Naperville train disaster
 * 1983 – Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad discontinues independent intercity passenger train service with the final run of the Rio Grande Zephyr.
 * 1997 – Construction begins on Phase II of Manchester Metrolink in Manchester, England.

21st century

 * 2004 – Amtrak discontinues the Chicago-Toronto International.
 * 2005 – A JR West commuter train derails and strikes an apartment building in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, killing 106 and injuring more than 460 others; see Amagasaki rail crash.

Births

 * 1853 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (d. 1943).

Deaths

 * 1970 – Oliver Bulleid, chief mechanical engineer of Southern Railway in Great Britain 1937-1948 (b. 1882).