Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 28
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- June 28
- 1895 – The New Haven and Hartford Railroad begins the first regular passenger service in the United States powered by electricity.
- 1918 – The Soviet government publishes a decree nationalizing all major Russian railways.
- 1930 – The Schleizer Kleinbahn (pictured) opens for traffic using electric traction on its line between Schleiz and Saalburg in Thuringia.
- 1963 – The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's King Coal passenger train makes its final run to Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
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