Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 10


 * February 10


 * 1808 – John Edgar Thomson (pictured), president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852–1874, is born (d. 1874).
 * 1851 – The Illinois Central Railroad is chartered.
 * 1879 – The begins freight operations.
 * 1950 – Canadian National Railway gains control of in the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick.