Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 20
- 1820 – Alfred Belpaire (pictured), inventor of the Belpaire firebox used on steam locomotives, is born.
- 1853 – Indianapolis's Union Station, the first union station in the United States, opens.
- 1873 – In order to contain the Panic of 1873, brought on by the failure of Jay Cooke and Company in financing the Northern Pacific Railway, the New York Stock Exchange halts all trading and closes for ten days.
- 1997 – RaiLink Southern Ontario begins operations on the former Canadian National Railway Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford.