April 15 in rail transport

19th century

• 1810 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, is born.
• 1880 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Albuquerque, New Mexico.

20th century

• 1907 – William N. Page is named president of the newly formed Virginian Railway.
• 1921 – Southern Pacific Railroad takes delivery of 4-6-2 number 2472 (now preserved) from Baldwin Locomotive Works.

21st century

• 2005 – Amtrak cancels all Acela Express trains between Washington, DC, New York City and Boston as cracks are found in the brakes on a majority of the trainsets' coaches.
• 2005 – SEPTA begins construction on an $85 million project to replace and upgrade signal, communications and track switch equipment between its Wayne Junction and Glenside stations.

Births

• 1889 – A. Philip Randolph, who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 (d. 1979).

Deaths

• 1819 – Oliver Evans, pioneering steam locomotive designer and inventor, dies (b. 1755).

References

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