Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/April 2

1853 – The New York Central Railroad (pictured) is formed through the merger of ten smaller railroads in the New York area.
1900 – Kreis Westhavelland opens as a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge railway connecting Rathenow, Senzke and Paulinenaue, in the German state of Brandenburg.
1910 – Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn in Germany opens the section from Bad Nauheim to Rockenberg.
1914 – Construction begins on the Connaught Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains under Rogers Pass on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line between Calgary, Alberta, and Revelstoke, British Columbia.

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