Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 3


 * July 3


 * 1854 – The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York, opens for passenger service.
 * 1884 – The first Dow Jones average, the predecessor of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is published; of the eleven companies included in the average, nine of them are American railroads.
 * 1938 – The steam locomotive LNER 4468 Mallard sets the world speed record for steam locomotives at 126 mph.
 * 1995 – The extension of Minsk Metro's Avtozavodskaya Line connecting Frunzenskaya to Pushkinskaya (pictured) opens.