Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 9


 * July 9


 * 1889 – The Housatonic Railroad, a predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, leases the New Haven and Derby Railroad.
 * 1905 – The Scott Special, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway passenger train chartered by "Death Valley Scotty" for $5,500, departs Los Angeles, California, on its record breaking run to Chicago, Illinois, in just under 45 hours.
 * 1918 – Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway trains collide head-on. 101 people are killed, and 171 are injured, making the Great train wreck of 1918 (pictured) the deadliest train accident in United States history.
 * 1926 – The first use of a radiotelephone on a train occurs on a train of the New York Central Railroad.