Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 23
- January 23
- 1869 – George Westinghouse files for a patent on his air brake (pictured).
- 1896 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.[1]
- 1980 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.[2]
- 2006 – 45 people die near Bioče, Montenegro, in the Bioče train disaster when a local train carrying around 300 people from the town of Bijelo Polje in northern Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea port of Bar derails above a 100-metre (330 ft) deep ravine on the Morača river.
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- ^ "Northwestern Elevated (1893-1924)". Chicago "L".org. Retrieved January 23, 2006.
- ^ "Western Pacific History". Feather River Rail Society/Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society. 2002. Retrieved January 23, 2006.