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19th century

 * 1874 – East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania operates its first revenue trains.

20th century

 * 1934 – The Broadway-Rensselaer streetcar line in Albany, New York, operated by United Traction Company, is abandoned.
 * 1961 – Maritime, Coal Railway and Power Company, in Nova Scotia, ceases operations.
 * 1983 – In preparation for a sale of the Alaska Railroad's assets to the state of Alaska, the United States Railway Association sets the railroad's fair market value at $22.3 million.
 * 1988 – Boston and Maine Railroad's former Connecticut River Railroad line is transferred to Amtrak for the restoration of Montrealer service, which later becomes Amtrak's Vermonter.

Deaths

 * 1940 – Hale Holden, president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1914-1918 and 1920-1929, chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad 1932-1939, dies (b. 1869).