Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 18

1855 – The second Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge (pictured) opens for rail traffic; the bridge had rails that allowed trains of three different gauges to operate over it.
1950 – Wind blows smoke and freshly fallen snow to obscure the headlight on a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train doing switching maneuvers at Ashton, Ontario; the apparently blinking light is misinterpreted as a clear signal by the engineer of an opposing train who throttles up and runs into passenger cars that were still standing on the mainline.^[1]
1960 – Western Region of British Railways 2-10-0 standard class 9F 92220 Evening Star is officially named at Swindon Works to commemorate its completion as the last steam locomotive built for BR.
2005 – Joseph H. Boardman, head of the New York State Department of Transportation, is nominated to lead the United States Federal Railroad Administration.

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