Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 10

Early mallet locomotive and train in France, circa 1876

1852 – The first revenue train operates over the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, pulled by a 4-4-0 steam locomotive named Rocket.^[1]
1872 – Shimbashi Teishajō, the original terminus of Japan's first railway, opens.
1882 – The first dining car in Europe is operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on a train between Paris and Vienna.
1919 – Anatole Mallet, inventor of the mallet locomotive type (pictured), dies (b. 1837).

References[edit]

^ Rock Island Railroad (reprinted by the Rock Island Technical Society) (c. 1970). "A Brief Historical Overview of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad". Yard Clerical Manual. Retrieved October 10, 2006.