Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 8


 * July 8


 * 1853 – The Northern Indiana Railroad (a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; map shown) is formed through the merger of several smaller railroads in Indiana and Ohio.
 * 1881 – Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern US railroads, is born (d. 1935).
 * 1895 – The Delagoa Bay Railway, in South Africa, opens.
 * 1908 – Construction begins on the Belt Line railway in Hull, Ontario.