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 * November 14


 * 1824 – James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).
 * 1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton (pictured), signer of the Declaration of Independence and a co-founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, dies (b. 1737).
 * 1960 – A steam locomotive-hauled passenger train incorrectly departs from a station and runs into a diesel locomotive-powered freight train in northeastern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. See: Stéblová train disaster.
 * 2015 – A test TGV train traveling eastbound on the LGV Est high-speed rail line derails as it enters a curve at 265 km/h in Eckwersheim, killing eleven crew and injuring 42 others.