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19th century

 * 1869 – The golden spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, on the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
 * 1873 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Granada, Colorado.
 * 1893 – New York Central locomotive number 999 pulls a passenger train between Batavia and Buffalo, New York, reaching 112.5 mph; this is the first time an American train breaks 100 mph.

20th century

 * 1997 – Amtrak ceases operations of the Chicago–Los Angeles Desert Wind passenger train.

21st century

 * 2002 – The Potters Bar rail crash occurs at Potters Bar, north of London, England, when a northbound passenger train derails at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.
 * 2004 – Canadian National Railway acquires Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
 * 2013 – Norfolk Southern Railway announces the appointment of James A. Squires to become the railroad's new president effective June 1.