Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 28


 * June 28


 * 1895 – The New Haven and Hartford Railroad begins the first regular passenger service in the United States powered by electricity.
 * 1918 – The Soviet government publishes a decree nationalizing all major Russian railways.
 * 1930 – The Schleizer Kleinbahn (pictured) opens for traffic using electric traction on its line between Schleiz and Saalburg in Thuringia.
 * 1963 – The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's  passenger train makes its final run to Shamokin, Pennsylvania.