Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 2


 * December 2


 * 1863 – Union Pacific Railroad holds groundbreaking ceremonies in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad at Omaha, Nebraska, (pictured) but the first rails aren't laid for another year.
 * 1892 – Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
 * 1906 – Construction begins on Santa Fe's Rocky Ford, Colorado, station; the station is completed and occupied by the end of March 1907.