Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 21


 * July 21


 * 1836 – Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, is opened.
 * 1877 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland, the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.
 * 1904 – The Trans-Siberian railway (map pictured) is completed.
 * 2000 – Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.