Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 6


 * April 6


 * 1869 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway is formed through the merger of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad and the Lake Shore Railway.
 * 1885 – The Meriden and Cromwell Railroad, a Connecticut predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, opens.
 * 1964 – Freight transportation on Alaska Railroad between Fairbanks and Anchorage resumes after repairs from an earthquake that occurred on March 27.
 * 1992 – The first section of Manchester Metrolink (pictured), in Manchester, England, opens.