Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 7

January 7

Sanford Fleming, as painted by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, 1892

• 1827 – Sandford Fleming (pictured), surveyor for Canadian Pacific Railway who established Canadian time zones, is born (d. 1915).
• 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens its first section, 1½ miles (2.4 km), in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1836 – John Molson, who established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada, dies (b. 1763).
• 2005 – A passenger train and freight train collide head-on in Crevalcore, in northern Italy (near Bologna), on the single-track mainline between Bologna and Verona.

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