Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/October 4
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- October 4
- 1883 – Henry Farnam, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1854–1863, dies (b. 1803).
- 1883 – The first ever Orient Express passenger train service operates between Paris, France, and Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
- 1904 – Henry C. Payne, president of Milwaukee and Northern Railroad, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company and the Milwaukee and Cream City Traction Company, and receiver for Northern Pacific Railway in 1893, dies (b. 1843).
- 1976 – Henry G. Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, dies (b. 1886).
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