Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 6
- April 6
- 1869 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway is formed through the merger of the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad and the Lake Shore Railway.[1][2]
- 1885 – The Meriden and Cromwell Railroad, a Connecticut predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, opens.[3]
- 1964 – Freight transportation on Alaska Railroad between Fairbanks and Anchorage resumes after repairs from an earthquake that occurred on March 27.[4]
- 1992 – The first section of Manchester Metrolink (pictured), in Manchester, England, opens.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Railroad History Timeline: 1860". Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved April 6, 2006.
- ^ New York Central Railroad (1913). "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". 1913 Annual Report of The New York Central Railroad System. Retrieved April 6, 2006.
- ^ Blakeslee, Philip C. "A Brief History Lines West of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co". Retrieved April 6, 2006.
- ^ Alaska Railroad. "Alaska Railroad History". Retrieved April 6, 2006.