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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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