Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/May 18

1874 – Construction begins on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad in Colorado.
1937 – All heavyweight wood passenger cars used on the Super Chief (pictured) are replaced with lightweight stainless steel cars.
2005 – BNSF Railway takes delivery of its first diesel locomotives with built-in video cameras and microphones to record grade crossing incidents; BNSF intends to mount cameras in all lead-qualified locomotives by December 2005.
2005 – JR West adviser Masataka Ide announces that he will resign at the company's annual shareholder meeting in June 2005 to take responsibility for the Amagasaki rail crash; the chairman and president will also resign later in August.

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