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 * September 18


 * 1936 – Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 number 3003 pulls a newly-designed lightweight passenger train at 112.5 mph near St. Telesphore, Quebec, Canada.
 * 1972 – The São Paulo Metro (pictured) is inaugurated in Brazil with the first experimental trips between Jabaquara and Saúde stations.
 * 1982 – The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.
 * 1991 – The last train out of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, departs with six Canadian National Railway diesel locomotives pulling 64 railroad cars and caboose number 79822.