Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 1


 * March 1


 * 1816 – John Souther, founder of Globe Locomotive Works, is born (d. 1911).
 * 1876 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (pictured) reaches Pueblo, Colorado.
 * 1920 – Control of American railroads is returned to private ownership and administration with the disbandment of the USRA.
 * 1989 – The Abbeville-Grimes Railway (a predecessor of the Bay Line Railroad) begins operations between its namesake cities in Alabama.