Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 13

1771 – Richard Trevithick (pictured), English inventor and steam locomotive builder is born (d. 1833).
1881 – The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company (later known as the Nickel Plate Road) purchases the Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago Railway
1916 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his younger brother Mantis James Van Sweringen purchase a 75% controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road from William Kissam Vanderbilt for $8.5 million.
2005 – The transport ministry of Bulgaria issues the first freight transport license in that country to a private company, the Bulgarian Railroad Company, to operate on the nation's rail network.

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