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19th century

 * 1863 – Gov. Stanford, Central Pacific Railroad's first locomotive, enters service in California.
 * 1885 – The last spike is driven on the California Southern Railroad between Barstow and San Bernardino through Cajon Pass, completing the connection to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.

20th century

 * 1903 – The gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway opens in India.
 * 1933 – Canadian National Railway's line to Lynn Lake, Manitoba, opens.
 * 1953 – Canadian National Railway extends the line from Lynn Lake to Sherridon, Manitoba.
 * 1953 – Canadian Pacific Railway introduces Budd Rail Diesel Car service, "Dayliners", for lighter passenger train duties on some branch lines.
 * 1963 – Two passenger trains collide with a derailed freight train on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan; the Yokohama rail crash results in 161 deaths.
 * 1998 – The St. Thomas and Eastern Railway begins operations on a former Canadian National Railway branch line between St. Thomas and Delhi, Ontario.

Births

 * 1803 – Henry Farnam, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1854–1863, is born (d. 1883).
 * 1869 – Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1920-1939, is born (d. 1939).

Deaths

 * 1936 – Henry Clay Hall, commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917-1928 (born 1860).
 * 1940 – Charles Langbridge Morgan, chief engineer for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, dies (b. 1855).