Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 16


 * June 16


 * 1938 – The Pike's Peak Cog Railway in Colorado operates gasoline-powered railcar number 7, the first rack railcar in the world, for the first time.
 * 1950 – Copper Range Railroad's coal unloading dock at Houghton, Michigan, is razed.
 * 1953 – New York Central ends steam locomotive operation on the former Michigan Central Railroad with a train pulled by 4-6-4 number 5434.
 * 1974 – The Milwaukee Road ends operation of its electric locomotives (pictured) in Montana and Idaho. Trains over the Rocky Mountains are now solely powered by diesels.
 * 1995 – Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 "Pacific" No. 1278 pulled the Summer Eve Dinner excursion on the Gettysburg Railroad right before suffering a crown sheet failure, resulting in a backdraft explosion that gave third degree burn s to all three of its crew. The crew survived the accident, and No. 1278 is still preserved, albeit not operational as of 2021. As a result of the accident, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) must perform an inspection every 1,472 days (fifteen years) on any operational steam locomotive in the United States.