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19th century

 * 1884 – The Iron Railroad in Ohio is reincorporated as the Iron Railway.
 * 1898 – Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 3,000th new steam locomotive.
 * 1899 – After successfully lobbying for a change in Canadian Federal regulations and a new city by-law to allow the service, the Ottawa Electric Railway begins Sunday operations.

20th century

 * 1974 – Shin-Koshigaya Station on what is now the Tobu Skytree Line in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan, is opened.
 * 1984 – The Dublin Area Rapid Transit opens, serving Dublin with an electrified rapid transit service for commuters. The original route was from Howth to Bray.

21st century

 * 2012 – Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announces that it will purchase RailAmerica in a deal that is valued at $1.39 billion.

Deaths

 * 1883 – Ginery Twichell, president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad beginning in 1857, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1870–1873 (b. 1811).
 * 1909 – Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer who established the first Congo railway (b. 1844).