February 9 in rail transport

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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on February 9.

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1857 – The Central Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Nebraska Territory to build a railroad from the Missouri River through the Rocky Mountains to Washington Territory.^[1]
1865 – The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad, predecessor to the Colorado Central Railroad, is chartered.
1875 – The first train passes through the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts; the tunnel remains the longest railroad tunnel in North America east of the Rocky Mountains.
1880 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1899 – Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway purchases the Minneapolis, New Ulm and Southern.

1971 – A Zurich-bound TEE train derails at Aitrang, Germany, due to excess speed and is hit by a railbus. 28 die and 42 are injured.

2005 – BNSF Railway announces that it has begun planning for the construction of a new intermodal container transload facility near the port of Los Angeles, California.

1836 – Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866–1883 (d. 1889).

1901 – Fred Harvey, restaurateur who founded the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels to serve passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (b. 1835).
1943 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad 1937–1943 (b. 1877).^[2]

^ An Act to Incorporate the Central Pacific Railroad Company. The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (1858). Retrieved on 2006-05-18.
^ Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7.