Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 11

1901 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950-1966, is born (d. 1969).
1905 – Long Island Rail Road inaugurates electric operations on the Rockaway Beach Division connecting Far Rockaway (pictured) and Valley Stream.[1]
2000 – Amtrak's Acela Express service between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., is inaugurated.
2001 – Seven members of the CCFE (Communauté des chemins de fer européens) leave to form EIM (European Infrastructure Managers).

References

"December 11, 1905, Far Rockaway Branch". aRRt's aRRchive. Retrieved December 11, 2006.

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