Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 12


 * May 12


 * 1911 – Electric trains begin work between London Victoria station and Crystal Palace.
 * 1916 – Fred T. Perris, Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
 * 1936 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the all-diesel powered Super Chief passenger train (pictured) between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
 * 2005 – A fire engulfs a railroad bridge in Kearney, New Jersey, on the heavily travelled Northeast Corridor.