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20th century

 * 1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles.
 * 1910 – Construction begins on the Sheridan Railway in Sheridan, Wyoming.
 * 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.
 * 1993 – The last empty freight cars belonging to each other's railway networks are transferred across the closed border between Turkey and Armenia and returned to their respective railways.
 * 2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.

21st century

 * 2005 – Amtrak resumes limited Acela Express service with four daily departures each from New York and Washington, D.C.
 * 2006 – A series of bombs explode aboard commuter trains on the Mumbai Suburban Railway in India.
 * 2006 – A derailment and subsequent fire on the Blue Line of the Chicago 'L' system closes the line just after 5:00 PM Central Time.
 * 2006 – Daqin Railway becomes the first Chinese railway company to be listed on a domestic Chinese stock exchange when the railway's application was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

Births

 * 1827 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).