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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on February 8.

• 1808 – The Washington Bridge Company is granted authority in Washington, D.C., to build the Long Bridge over the Potomac River, a bridge that will eventually be rebuilt to carry the first railroad tracks to cross the river.^[1]

• 1904 – Service begins on Canadian Pacific Railway's Maniwaki line between Hull, Ontario, and Maniwaki, Quebec.^[2]
• 1986 – 23 people are killed in the Hinton train collision when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a Canadian National Railway freight train near Hinton, Alberta.
• 1995 – Southern Pacific Transportation Company announces that Edward L. Moyers, then chairman of the Southern Pacific Company's board of directors, has submitted his resignation citing the advice of his physicians.^[3]

• 1905 – Jay Cooke, American financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway, dies (b. 1821).