Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 17


 * August 17


 * 1849 – The Old Guarantee System providing land grants to English companies for railroad construction in India is finalized.
 * 1860 – The Oil Creek Railroad (stock certificate pictured) is chartered by railroad investor Thomas Struthers of Warren, Pennsylvania, and several other Warren businessmen
 * 1886 – The 7 mi long Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad is incorporated in Ottawa County, Ohio.
 * 1897 – W. B. Purvis is awarded a patent for an electric railroad switch.