Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 23


 * January 23


 * 1869 – George Westinghouse files for a patent on his air brake (pictured).
 * 1896 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.
 * 1980 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.
 * 2006 – 45 people die near Bioče, Montenegro, in the Bioče train disaster when a local train carrying around 300 people from the town of Bijelo Polje in northern Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea port of Bar derails above a 100 m deep ravine on the Morača river.