Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 16
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- July 16
- 1877 – Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.
- 1939 – The world's first diesel-powered rack locomotive enters service on the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway (pictured).
- 1983 – The route of Amtrak's California Zephyr is shifted off the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
- 1999 – Indian Railways' Grand Trunk Express on its way to Delhi collides with derailed freight cars near Mathura, India; 17 people die and 200 more are injured in the accident.
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