Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 13

1845 – A meeting is held in the courthouse of Navan, Ireland, to protest plans by Thomas Brodigan to build a railway between Navan and Dublin.^[1]^[2]
1909 – William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (pictured), dies (b. 1836).
1973 – Michigan governor William Milliken issues an executive order placing state railroad regulation under a newly reorganized Michigan Department of Transportation.^[3]
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world to date, opens between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.

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