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19th century

 * 1849 – The Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad (which eventually was absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) is chartered in Ohio to build a railroad from Portsmouth through Piketon and Chillicothe to Lancaster.

20th century

 * 1980 – Canadian Pacific Railway officially abandons its Eganville subdivision, including tracks between Payne and Douglas, Ontario.
 * 1998 – The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad files an application with the Surface Transportation Board to build new railroad track to haul coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

21st century

 * 2006 – Chicago Transit Authority holds groundbreaking ceremonies for the Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project to repair its aging infrastructure and increase passenger capacity at Brown Line stations.

Births

 * 1811 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843-1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847, is born (d. 1847).
 * 1848 – E. H. Harriman, the executive in charge of both the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad at the turn of the 20th century, is born (d. 1909).

Deaths

 * 2009 – James I. C. Boyd, British railway historian, dies (b. 1921).