Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 13


 * October 13


 * 1877 – Rørosbanen, Norway's oldest mainline railway, opens as a narrow gauge railway.
 * 1902 – Professor Ernest Rutherford (pictured) of McGill University demonstrates the first wireless communication system between a station and a moving train using a Grand Trunk Railway passenger special operating between Toronto and Montreal.
 * 1914 – The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, building northward from Sault Ste. Marie, opens its northernmost section between Oba and Hearst, Ontario.
 * 1988 – Rio Grande Industries, parent company of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, purchases Southern Pacific Railroad; the post-merger company adopts the Southern Pacific name due to brand recognition with shippers.