Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 1
- September 1
- 1813 – Mark Hopkins (pictured), a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California that helped build the Central Pacific Railroad's portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, is born (d. 1878).
- 1865 – The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
- 1876 – The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 2003 – Deutsche Bahn takes over operations of the Stinnes Group in Germany.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "Stinnes AG". FundingUniverse. Retrieved September 1, 2009.