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19th century

 * 1853 – The Junction Railroad line from Ohio City to Toledo, Ohio, opens as part of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad.
 * 1859 – The Chestnut and Walnut Street Railway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is extended to 22nd Street.
 * 1887 – Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad opens a branch line from Ashland to Schuyler, Nebraska.
 * 1891 – Fifteen cars and two brake vans of a freight train decouple and run out of control down 70 chains of the Lithgow Zig Zag in New South Wales, Australia, destroying five cars and one brake van.
 * 1892 – Illinois Central Railroad subsidiary Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad acquires the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway.

20th century

 * 1903 – The National Transcontinental Railway Act is passed in Canada.
 * 1903 – The Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway in Canada is reorganized as the Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway.
 * 1980 – American Financial Enterprises, then successor of the New Haven Railroad, renews the official designation of University of Connecticut as the official repository of New Haven Railroad historical records.
 * 1987 – Nicola Firze directs the Locos-Symphonie, a work where the horns of various locomotives are used as musical instruments, at Gare de Lyon in Paris, France.

21st century

 * 2003 – Network Rail announces it will conduct all maintenance activities in-house.

Births

 * 1855 – Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923, is born (d. 1944).

Deaths

 * 1940 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933, dies (b. 1857).