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 * November 9


 * 1803 – Henry Farnam, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1854–1863, is born (d. 1883).
 * 1885 – The last spike is driven on the California Southern Railroad between Barstow and San Bernardino, completing the connection to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
 * 1903 – The gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway (pictured) opens in India.
 * 1963 – Two passenger trains collide with a derailed freight train on the Tokaido Main Line in Yokohama, Japan; the Yokohama rail crash results in 161 deaths.