Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 19


 * July 19


 * 1877 – The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road) opens.
 * 1900 – The first section of the Paris Métro (construction pictured) opens.
 * 1968 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Texas Chief passenger train discontinues station stops at Dallas, Texas.
 * 1987 – New short line railroad Red River Valley and Western Railroad begins operations over 667 mi of former BN tracks in North Dakota.