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19th century

 * 1829 – Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive used on a common carrier railroad, is operated in a race against a horsecar.
 * 1835 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens the Washington Branch to connect the railroad to Washington, D.C..
 * 1860 – England's Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII, presides over the opening ceremonies for the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, Canada.

20th century

 * 1904 – The New Long Railroad Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., opens.
 * 1927 – Detroit and Mackinac Railway officially abandons the section from Au Sable River Jct. to Comins and the Curran Branch between Hardy and Beavers.
 * 1943 – Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad operates its last regular narrow gauge train on the section between Leadville and Climax.
 * 1970 – Mobile and Gulf Railroad operates the last regularly-scheduled steam locomotive-powered train on a common carrier railroad in North America.

Births

 * 1840 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s, is born (d. 1893).
 * 1846 – Cassius Milton Wicker, commissioner of Chicago Freight Bureau, president of a number of midwestern and New England railroad companies, is born (d. 1913).