Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 17


 * March 17


 * 1884 – The Southern Pacific Railroad (pictured) is incorporated in Kentucky.
 * 1914 – A celebration is held in honor of the first train to arrive on the newly constructed Kansas City Southern Railway line in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
 * 1974 – A freight train on Canadian Pacific Railway is derailed when it hits a rock slide near Spences Bridge, British Columbia; the accident leads to the installation of ditch lights on all Canadian diesel locomotives.