Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 29


 * December 29


 * 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, the worst train disaster in America to date, occurs in Ohio when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway passenger train falls into the Ashtabula River as the bridge collapsed under the train.
 * 1904 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of and New York and Stamford Railway, extending its streetcar network through Greenwich, Connecticut, into New Rochelle, New York.
 * 1939 – The Pioneer Zephyr streamliner trainset (pictured) crosses the one million mile (1.6 million km) mark in revenue service near Council Bluffs, Iowa.
 * 1967 – The first steam locomotive powered train operates at Illinois Railway Museum using a Shay locomotive.