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- 1881 – Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad, building eastward from Los Angeles, California, reach El Paso, Texas.
- 1909 – Henry H. Rogers, American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway, dies (b. 1840).
- 1937 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway files for bankruptcy.
- 2005 – A fully loaded passenger train collides with a stopped freight train in Lampung, Indonesia; initial reports indicate at least seven fatalities and hundreds more injured.