Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 3


 * March 3


 * 1831 – George Pullman (pictured), American inventor and industrialist, and founder of the Pullman Company, is born (d. 1897).
 * 1849 – The Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, is chartered in Missouri.
 * 1859 – Construction begins on the first railway in northern India as tracks are laid between the present day locations of Allahabad and Kanpur.
 * 1997 – Union Pacific Railroad reopens the former Western Pacific Railroad Feather River Canyon line in California after repairs are made from flooding that occurred in January.