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October 23


 * 1874 – The first trains operate on the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad, making it the first narrow gauge railway to operate in California.
 * 1880 – The California Southern Railroad is chartered to connect San Diego to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California (timetable shown).
 * 1917 – The Canadian Railway War Board (predecessor of the Railway Association of Canada) meets for the first time at Windsor Station, Montreal.
 * 2004 – The Chūetsu earthquake, 6.8 magnitude, in Japan causes the first derailment of a Shinkansen train; the Jōetsu Shinkansen train was traveling 200 km/h on the Tokyo-Niigata line, but no fatalities were reported.