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19th century

 * 1864 – An immigrant train traveling from Quebec City to Montreal, Quebec, falls into the Richelieu River at Belœil, Quebec, after failing to stop for a signal at an open swing bridge, killing 99 people; the St-Hilaire train disaster, as it has come to be known, is so far the rail accident with the largest passenger death toll in Canada.
 * 1896 – The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company (predecessor of the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway) is incorporated.

20th century

 * 1905 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of Branford Lighting and Water Company.
 * 1914 – The maiden trip on the Portland–Lewiston Interurban is made when the car Arbutus carries an inspection trip from Lewiston to Portland, Maine.
 * 1933 – Portland–Lewiston Interurban ends regular service on its line in Maine.
 * 1934 – The Southern Railway renames the Southern Belle passenger train (between London and Brighton, England) to Brighton Belle.
 * 1940 – Syracuse Transit Corporation closes the South Salina and Nedrow lines in Syracuse, New York.
 * 1947 – The Milwaukee Road inaugurates the Olympian Hiawatha passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Tacoma, Washington. Simultaneously, the railroad revives the Columbian, operating on the same route.
 * 1949 – The final day of steam locomotive service on the Monon Railroad as the Monon becomes one of the first Class I railroads in America to fully convert to diesel motive power.