Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 16
Appearance
- November 16
- 1847 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843-1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847, dies (b. 1811).
- 1897 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946-1948, is born (d. 1978).
- 1916 – The two-story station opened by the California Southern Railroad in San Bernardino, California, (pictured) is destroyed by fire.[1]
- Rosedale train crash.
See also
References
- ^ San Bernardino Associated Governments (2004). "A Brief History of the Santa Fe Depot". Retrieved July 17, 2006.