Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 11
- October 11
- 1887 – Cotton Belt Railroad predecessor Paragould and Buffalo Island Railway, in Arkansas, is incorporated.
- 1933 – London, Midland and Scottish Railway 4-6-0 Royal Scot number 6152, of the LMS Royal Scot Class locomotives, departs the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, bound for Vancouver, British Columbia.
- standard gauge railroad in the United States when it pulls a train from Leadville to Climax, Colorado.
- track to the newly formed Wisconsin Central Ltd. (pictured) The first train of the new Wisconsin Central is operated from Stevens Point to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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