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19th century

 * 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens its first section, 1&frac12; miles (2.4 km), in Baltimore, Maryland.
 * 1872 – The Northern Central Michigan Railroad begins operations between Jonesville and Albion, Michigan.

20th century

 * 1924 – Great Western Railway rebuilds its sole 4-6-2 steam locomotive, number 111 The Great Bear, which was the first 4-6-2 locomotive to be operated in Great Britain, as a 4-6-0.
 * 1969 – Due to technical problems during operations, TurboTrain service between Montreal and Toronto is discontinued.
 * 1995
 * The New Brunswick Southern Railway begins operations.
 * Wisconsin Central Ltd. assumes control of the Algoma Central Railway.

21st century

 * 2002 – Using a new GPS-based train location control system Amtrak train number 351 becomes the first train to regularly exceed 90 mph in regular service between Porter, Indiana, and Kalamazoo, Michigan.
 * 2005 – A passenger train and freight train collide head-on in Crevalcore, in northern Italy (near Bologna), on the single-track mainline between Bologna and Verona.

Births

 * 1827 – Sandford Fleming, surveyor for Canadian Pacific Railway who established Canadian time zones (d. 1915).

Deaths

 * 1836 – John Molson, who established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada (b. 1763).