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19th century

 * 1890 – The Ivorydale and Mill Creek Valley Railway is incorporated in Ohio as a local switching company for the Procter & Gamble plant in Cincinnati.

20th century

 * 1903 – Apalachicola Northern Railroad, later to become AN Railway, is chartered.
 * 1907 – Just one week after construction is completed on the Barnwell and Searchlight Railway connecting Barnwell, California, and Searchlight, Nevada, the railway is leased to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
 * [[Image:GrandTrunkLastSpike.jpg|thumb|Driving the last spike on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.]] 1914 – The last spike is driven on the [[Grand Trunk Pacific Railway]] at Fort Fraser, British Columbia, 93 miles (150 km) west of Prince George, completing the line between Winnipeg and Prince Rupert.
 * 1957 – New York City trolleys run for the last time.
 * 1992 – A passenger train travelling from Bitragunta to Vijayawada, India, passes a signal at danger and runs into a stationary freight train near Tenali; 20 passengers die and many more are injured.

Deaths

 * 2006 – Ian David Sinclair, president of Canadian Pacific Railway 1969-1981, dies (b. 1913).