Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 11


 * July 11


 * 1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles, California.
 * 1914 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Berlin–Baghdad railway opens.
 * 1942 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.
 * 2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.