Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 1


 * September 1


 * 1813 – Mark Hopkins (pictured), a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California that helped build the Central Pacific Railroad's portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, is born (d. 1878).
 * 1865 – The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
 * 1876 – The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 * 2003 – Deutsche Bahn takes over operations of the Stinnes Group in Germany.