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19th century

 * 1826 – The first train operates over the Granite Railway, one of the first railroads in North America, in Massachusetts.

20th century

 * 1905 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of Willimantic Traction Company.

21st century

 * 2001 – Railtrack, in England, is placed under legal administration by Stephen Byers, Secretary of State for Transport, effectively renationalizing the system.
 * 2003 – RENFE opens the Madrid-Lerida section of the railroad's new Madrid-Barcelona line in Spain.

Deaths

 * 1927 – Godfrey M. Hyams, financier for Deepwater Railway and Tidewater Railway, dies (b. 1859).
 * 1968 – Richard M. Dilworth, General Motors Electro-Motive Division chief engineer credited with developing the diesel-electric locomotive concept in the 1930s, dies (b. 1885).