Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 26


 * April 26


 * 1869 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad opens its first segment of track (6 miles / 10 km long) between Topeka and Pauline, Kansas.
 * 1875 – Prince Edward Island Railway operates its first regularly scheduled train between Charlottetown and Georgetown.
 * 1900 – A defective chimney on a house in Hull starts the Great Hull-Ottawa fire (pictured); among the items destroyed are nearly 200 freight cars and the Canadian Pacific Railway station and freight house. The resulting shortage of lumber for reconstruction forces Canada Atlantic Railway to temporarily halt production on new railroad cars at the company shops in Ottawa.
 * 2003 – DLW completes construction of the first WDP-4 locomotive to be built entirely within India.