Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/August 24


 * August 24


 * 1816 – Daniel Gooch (pictured), Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway in England, is born (d. 1889).
 * 1835 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens its line between Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
 * 1916 – After a bankruptcy, the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad is reorganized as the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (often called the "Frisco").
 * 1945 – The, which had operated between Merced, California, and Yosemite National Park, runs its last trains.