Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 27


 * July 27


 * 1866 – The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in the United States is chartered by a special act of Congress.
 * 1903 – Frederick J. Kimball (pictured), American civil engineer who was instrumental in the formation of Norfolk and Western Railway, dies (b. 1844).
 * 1903 – Construction begins on the Berlin–Baghdad railway with the 200 km segment between Konya and Bulgurlu in the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey).
 * 1996 – Ron Burns becomes president of Union Pacific Railroad.
 * 1996 – After over three years of being worked on, Ex-Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 2-8-2 "Mikado" No. 4960(as shown left) was fired up by the Grand Canyon Railway and moved under its own power for the first time in nine years.