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19th century

 * 1863 – The North Shore Railroad, a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road, is incorporated in New York to build a railroad between Hempstead Harbor and an interchange with the New York and Flushing Railroad.
 * 1866 – George W. Richardson of the Troy and Boston Railroad is awarded a U.S. patent for a steam locomotive pop safety valve.
 * 1868 – The Big Four group of financiers in California purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.
 * 1893 – The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway receives official authorization to operate over a level junction with the Canadian Pacific Railway in Arnprior, Ontario.
 * 1900 – The Arkansas, Louisiana and Southern Railway, a predecessor of the Kansas City Southern Railway, opens its extension from Sibley south to Ashland, Louisiana.

20th century

 * 1905 – United Railways is added to the James J. Hill empire of railroads.
 * 1955 – Passenger service aboard Canadian National Railway's carferries across the Detroit River is discontinued and replaced with bus service through the tunnels.

21st century

 * 2003 - Canadian National Railway sells most of its Turcot Yard in Montreal to the Quebec Department of Transport for $17.8 million.
 * 2010 – Guangzhou Metro's Line 4 extension connecting Chebeinan to Huangcun opens.

Deaths

 * 1913 – Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type, dies (b. 1864).