Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 8
- March 8
- 1881 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico,[1] making a connection with Southern Pacific Railroad tracks to complete a second transcontinental route across the United States.[2]
- 1904 – The Southern Pacific Railroad opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, Utah, for the railroad's mainline.
- 1920 – The board of directors for Canadian National Railway assumes management control of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (map pictured).[3]
- 2006 – Jean-Paul Denanot, president of the Limousin region of France, announces a new TGV service to begin by the following winter between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Lille via Limoges and Orléans.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally.
- ^ "Transcontinental, Railroad, Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, Railway Act". American Western History Museums. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. February 9, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
- ^ "8 mars dans les chemins de fer". French language Wikipedia (in French). June 30, 2006. Retrieved March 8, 2007.