Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 26


 * January 26


 * 1780 – John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (the company that built Stourbridge Lion [pictured]), is born (d. 1856).
 * 1909 – The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is formed from the merger of four smaller railroads in Pennsylvania.
 * 1963 – The last passenger train on Canadian Pacific Railway between Ottawa and Maniwaki, Quebec, departs using CP RDCs 9105 and 9023.
 * 2005 – In what police initially called a suicide attempt, a Metrolink train in Glendale, California (a suburb of Los Angeles), hits a car parked on a grade crossing and then derails into another Metrolink train and a parked Union Pacific Railroad locomotive; the 2005 Glendale train crash results in 11 fatalities and 200 injuries.