Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 8


 * March 8


 * 1881 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico, making a connection with Southern Pacific Railroad tracks to complete a second transcontinental route across the United States.
 * 1904 – The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, Utah, for the railroad's mainline.
 * 1920 – The board of directors for Canadian National Railway assumes management control of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (map pictured).
 * 2006 –, president of the Limousin region of France, announces a new TGV service to begin by the following winter between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Lille via Limoges and Orléans.