Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 6

1815 – The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.
1864 – George Jay Gould I (pictured), eldest son of Jay Gould and president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad is born (d. 1923).
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500 more.
2002 – Sabotage to some railway signal and power lines near Durban, South Africa, prevents a switch from being thrown properly, which in turn causes a commuter train to collide with a stationary freight train in the Charlotte’s Dale train crash; 24 people died and 168 more were injured in the collision.

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