Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 24


 * September 24


 * 1831 – The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad opens between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
 * 1868 – Henry C. Lord succeeds William F. Nast as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
 * 1870 – Ginery Twichell (pictured) succeeds Henry Keyes as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
 * 1934 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913-1920, dies (b. 1850).