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20th century

 * 1941 – Syracuse Transit Corporation ends streetcar service in Syracuse, New York, with the closure of the last four lines.
 * 1948 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad debut a new lightweight passenger car consist for the Golden State passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles.
 * 1961 – Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke delivers the first electric locomotives built in the German Democratic Republic to Deutsche Reichsbahn.
 * 1987 – Amtrak and Conrail trains collide in Maryland.
 * 2000 – The Åsta accident, a northbound BM92 multiple unit and a southbound passenger train headed by a Di 3 locomotive collides on Norway's Rørosbanen line near Åsta station, killing 19 people.

21st century

 * 2005 – Bombardier receives a contract from SNCF for €350 million to build 100 new regional trainsets.

Deaths

 * 1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).