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< Portal:Trains | Anniversaries
Passengers from the first run of the Grand Canyon Railway
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1836 – William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, is born (d. 1909).
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1860 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad, chartered on February 11, 1859, and predecessor to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is organized.
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1901 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates passenger train service on the Grand Canyon Railway (pictured) between Williams, Arizona, and the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
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1947 – The American Freedom Train, carrying the original versions of the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, begins a two-year tour of the United States starting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1989 – The Grand Canyon Railway is reopened for public excursion service.
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