Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 9


 * March 9


 * 1824 – Leland Stanford (pictured), a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California, is born (d. 1893).
 * 1847 – The Richmond and Danville Railroad is chartered in Virginia.
 * 1887 – Nathaniel Lamson Howard, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925-1929, is born (d. 1949).
 * 1957 – Robert Whitelegg, locomotive superintendent for London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 1910-1912, and for Glasgow and South Western Railway 1918-1923, general manager of Beyer, Peacock and Company 1923-1929, dies (b. 1871).