Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 13


 * March 13


 * 1845 – A meeting is held in the courthouse of Navan, Ireland, to protest plans by Thomas Brodigan to build a railway between Navan and Dublin.
 * 1909 – William Jackson Palmer (pictured), builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
 * 1973 – Michigan governor William Milliken issues an executive order placing state railroad regulation under a newly reorganized Michigan Department of Transportation.
 * 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world to date, opens between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.