Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 5


 * February 5


 * 1853 – The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, a predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (pictured), is established in Iowa to build a railroad between Davenport and Council Bluffs.
 * 1876 – The, which eventually became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway, opens between Schopfheim and Zell im Wiesental.
 * 1878 – The first train is operated on the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad from Renton to Newcastle.
 * 1950 – The first diesel locomotive to pull a freight train on the San Diego and Arizona Railway begins its journey from El Centro, California, on a trial run.