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This page features each month's railroad
history.
January/February
March 26, 1884
– In one of the strangest run-away
incidents ever recorded, a severe windstorm sent eight loaded hoppers of coal
rolling down a Burlington mainline at Akron, Colorado. Running at up to 40 miles
per hour, the cars covered a distance of nearly 100 miles before being caught by
a freight engine.
March 19, 1918 – Congress passed the Standard Time Act making the four
time zones adopted by the railroads in 1883 which is now the official time for
the United States.
April 12, 1862 – James J. Andrews and twenty Union soldiers, disguised
as civilians, stole the confederate locomotive "General" at Big
Shanty, Georgia.
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that I may make this page better in the future. Thanks!
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