Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 16


 * December 16


 * 1807 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway, is born (died 1875).
 * 1914 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway (pictured) in the 1950s, is born (died 2001).
 * 1916 – Canadian Pacific Railway's Connaught Tunnel under Rogers Pass is opened for regular operations.
 * 2017 – E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993-1998, president of Canadian National Railway 2003-2009, president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 2012-2017 and CEO of CSX Transportation in 2017, dies (born 1944)