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19th century

 * 1870 – The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.
 * 1877 – Joel Tiffany is awarded for his design of the first successful refrigerator car.

20th century

 * 1937 – Walter Kidde is appointed as trustee of the bankrupt New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway.
 * 1986 – The United States Interstate Commerce Commission denies the merger of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad citing an excessive amount of parallel track as one reason for the denial.
 * 1996 – Louis Gallois, former president of the Aerospatiale, becomes president of the SNCF in replacement of Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, imprisoned for being suspected of being part of the Elf Aquitaine scandal.

21st century

 * 2013 – An Alvia high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol, Spain, derails at high speed on a curve, about 4 km outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. See also: Santiago de Compostela derailment

Deaths

 * 1853 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad, dies (b. 1811).
 * 1883 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847-1853, dies (b. 1809).
 * 1892 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880, dies (born 1810).