Events

19th century

• 1825 – The first steam-hauled passenger train service operates and carries up to 600 passengers, at the official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the north of England.
• 1827 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, is born.

20th century

• 1923 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history.
• 1972 – Commemorating the opening of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) two weeks earlier, United States President Richard Nixon rides a BART train.
• 1993 – Amtrak's worst rail accident to date occurs in the Big Bayou Conot train disaster when the westbound Sunset Limited derails on a bridge in Alabama; the cause of the accident is found to be a collision between a river barge and one of the bridge's pilings knocking the rail out of alignment on the bridge.
• 1993 – The California Northern Railroad begins operations.

Births

• 1823 – Frederick H. Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879-1881, is born (d. 1890).

Deaths

• 1835 – Phineas Davis, pioneering steam locomotive builder.
• 1965 – William Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 (b. 1876).

References

• Casper Star-Tribune (June 22 2005), BP Amoco Timeline. Retrieved June 22 2005.
• Lustig, David (May 2005), "Renaissance in California", Trains Magazine, p. 72-76.