Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 11
- July 11
- 1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles, California.[1][2]
- 1914 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Berlin–Baghdad railway opens.
- 1942 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.
- 2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Signor, John R., compiler (First Quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. 12 (1): 17–29.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society) - ^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.