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19th century

 * 1856 – The line that is now Belgian railway line 161 is completed and opened connecting Brussels-North and Namur stations.
 * 1874 – The first trains operate on the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad, making it the first narrow gauge railroad to operate in California.
 * 1880 – The California Southern Railroad is chartered to connect San Diego to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California.

20th century

 * 1917 – The Canadian Railway War Board (predecessor of the Railway Association of Canada) meets for the first time at Windsor Station, Montreal.
 * 1924 – Two trolley cars of the Hull Electric Railway in Ottawa collide head-on due to a misunderstanding in operations around track maintenance work.
 * 1936 – One of the new ten-car Denver Zephyr trainsets makes a special run nonstop from Chicago to Denver, breaking the 1934 speed record of the Pioneer Zephyr between the two cities.
 * 1979 – Amtrak's Dearborn, Michigan, station opens.

21st century

 * 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.