Hey, Welcome One, Welcome All to my First Legacies…On The Rails post of 2024! I hope You had a blessed year in 2023 and that it brought You Lots of Rail-Fanning opportunities and that 2024 will be even better in every way possible!
So we’re starting off 2024 with the latest in my Today In Railroad History series with several entries borrowed from Wikipedia on railroad events that occured on the date of January 26th. And since one of those involves the Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, I was able to find a related image.
I hope You enjoy this look at January 26th in Railroad History!
January 26
- 1780 – John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (the company that built Stourbridge Lion [pictured]), is born (d. 1856).
- 1909 – The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is formed from the merger of four smaller railroads in Pennsylvania.[1]
- 1963 – The last passenger train on Canadian Pacific Railway between Ottawa and Maniwaki, Quebec, departs using CP RDCs 9105 and 9023.[2]
- 2005 – In what police initially called a suicide attempt, a Metrolink train in Glendale, California (a suburb of Los Angeles), hits a car parked on a grade crossing and then derails into another Metrolink train and a parked Union Pacific Railroad locomotive; the 2005 Glendale train crash results in 11 fatalities and 200 injuries.
So I hope You have a Great Rail-Fanning year in 2024 and continue to follow the Lord Jesus Christ as Your personal Lord & Savior and if You don’t know Him, I invite You to receive Him by Faith today!
And when it comes to trains and everything that is Railroading, Continue Leaving Legacies…On The Rails!
I’ll See You Down The Line!
Legacies...On The Rails!!! 