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19th century

 * 1835 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens its line between Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
 * 1837 – Queen Marie Amélie and King Louis-Philippe officially open the Paris-Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway line.
 * 1852 – The Chemin de Fer du Midi company obtains concession for the building of a line between Bordeaux and Sète on the Mediterranean.
 * 1871 – Hans Gløersen publishes the first documented idea of building a railway between Norway's two largest cities, Bergen and Oslo, in the newspaper Bergensposten.
 * 1882 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway leases the 97 mile (156 km) long Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad.

20th century

 * 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 Yosemite Valley Railroad, which had operated between Merced, California, and Yosemite National Park, runs its last trains.
 * 1946 – The Boston and Maine Railroad replaces electric locomotive operation through the Hoosac Tunnel with diesel locomotives.

Births

 * 1816 – Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway in England, is born (d. 1889).

Deaths

 * 1914 – Darius Miller, president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1910-1914, dies (b. 1859).