Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 13

1867 – Gridley Bryant (pictured), inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels, dies (b. 1789).
1920 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot as the first passenger train departs for Washington, D.C.
1928 – The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
2005 – CSX Transportation receives authorization from the United States Surface Transportation Board to abandon the former New York Central "High Line" elevated railway through New York City and to transfer ownership of the line and superstructure to the city.

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