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20th century

 * 1904 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens; the system is now the largest in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.
 * 1907 – Union Station in Washington, D.C., opens.
 * 1996 – Soo Line 1003, a 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by ALCO in 1913, operates under its own power for the first time after its restoration.

21st century

 * 2003 – The fleet of Siemens trains is returned to M>Train (Melbourne, Australia) service, some minus livery.
 * 2004 – The North American rail labor union Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes votes to merge with the Teamsters.

Births

 * 1819 – Henry B. Plant, president of the Plant System of railroads (d. 1899).

Deaths

 * 1945 – George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904-1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922-1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925-1931, dies (b. 1865).