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19th century

 * 1884 – The People's Passenger Railway opens a new line connecting Eighth Street to Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * 1892 – The first train ferry service on the Great Lakes and the first in the world over open waters is inaugurated with Ann Arbor Number 1 of the Ann Arbor Railroad between Elberta, Michigan, and Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

20th century

 * 1902 – The Cleveland Short Line Railway is incorporated to connect Fairport and Lorain, Ohio.
 * 1905 – Canadian Northern Railway completes tracklaying to Edmonton, Alberta, with Alberta's Lieutenant Governor ceremonially driving the last spike.
 * 1916 – German sleeping and dining car operator Mitropa is founded.
 * 1925 – Passenger service is discontinued on the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad in California.
 * 1929 – Pere Marquette Railroad launches the City of Saginaw car ferry for service on Lake Michigan.
 * 1961 – Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico (now known as Chepe) opens its line through the Copper Canyon in Mexico.
 * 1964 – Canadian National Railway opens the Great Slave Lake Railway connecting Pine Point, Northwest Territories, and Roma Junction, Alberta.
 * 1997 – The ownership of some former Canadian National Railway lines in Alberta is officially transferred to RailLink-Lakeland and Waterways.

Births

 * 1840 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H.K. Porter, Inc., is born (d. 1921).

Deaths

 * 1889 – George H. Pendleton, president of Kentucky Central Railroad 1869-1879, dies (b. 1825).