Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 27

1866 – The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in the United States is chartered by a special act of Congress.
1903 – Frederick J. Kimball (pictured), American civil engineer who was instrumental in the formation of Norfolk and Western Railway, dies (b. 1844).
1903 – Construction begins on the Berlin–Baghdad railway with the 200-kilometre (120 mi) segment between Konya and Bulgurlu in the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey).
1996 – Ron Burns becomes president of Union Pacific Railroad.
1996 – After over three years of being worked on, Ex-Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 2-8-2 "Mikado" No. 4960(as shown left) was fired up by the Grand Canyon Railway and moved under its own power for the first time in nine years.

Photo of No. 4960 on its second year running for the GCR, 1997

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