Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 12

San Bernardino station in 1915; at the western end of Cajon Pass

1885 – The first train to travel the entire route of California Southern Railroad's track through Cajon Pass (pictured) carries a shipment of rails from Barstow to Riverside.^[1]
1900 – Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1881–1884, dies (b. 1835).
1904 – The 157th Street station on New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line opens.
1931 – The Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., commemorates the 100th birthday of the John Bull, the world's oldest surviving operable steam locomotive, by operating its mechanism with compressed air.

References[edit]

^ Duke, Donald & Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. p. 32. ISBN 0-87095-009-6.