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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 23.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 19th century 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events

19th century

• 1869 – George Westinghouse files for a patent on his air brake.
• 1896 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.^[1]

20th century

• 1933 – San Diego and Arizona Railway's bypass around tunnel 7, which was destroyed by fire, opens.^[2]
• 1980 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.^[3]

21st century

Wikinews has related news: Montenegro trainwreck kills 44, injures over 100

• 2006 – 45 people die near Bioče, Montenegro, in the Bioče train disaster when a local train carrying around 300 people from the town of Bijelo Polje in the north of Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea port of Bar derails above a 100 m-deep ravine above the Morača river.

Births

• 1799 – Alois Negrelli, builder of the first railway in Switzerland, which connected Zurich and Baden, is born (d. 1858).

Deaths

References