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 * October 10


 * 1852 – The first revenue train operates over the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, pulled by a 4-4-0 steam locomotive named Rocket.
 * 1872 – Shimbashi Teishajō, the original terminus of Japan's first railway, opens.
 * 1882 – The first dining car in Europe is operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on a train between Paris and Vienna.
 * 1919 – Anatole Mallet, inventor of the mallet locomotive type (pictured), dies (b. 1837).