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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on August 27.

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Events

1828 – The 67-kilometre (42 mi) Andrézieux-Roanne line is authorized in France.
1867 – J. Nason and J. F. Wilson, both of Boston, Massachusetts, are awarded the first U.S. patent covering level crossing gates.[1]
1894 – Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway opens the segment between Fort-Coulonge and Waltham, Quebec, a line segment that was completed in February 1888.[2]

1913 – Jule Murat Hannaford succeeds Howard Elliott as president of Northern Pacific Railway.[3]
1946 – The last T1 class steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for Pennsylvania Railroad enters service.[1]
1956 – Pacific Great Eastern Railway, in British Columbia, holds official opening ceremonies to celebrate the beginning of service over its line (which occurred on June 11, 1956).[4]
1957 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway operates its last regularly-scheduled steam locomotive-powered train.[1]
1993 – The Green Bay and Western Railroad and the Fox River Valley Railroad are merged into a new Wisconsin Central subsidiary, the Fox Valley and Western Railroad.
1997 – Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and the United States Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) form a team composed of UP managers, union employees and FRA representatives to review safety policies and procedures across the UP system.[5]

1891 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863-1868, dies (b. 1816).
1983 – Harry A. deButts, president of Southern Railway 1951-1962, dies.

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This Month in Railroad History: August". Retrieved August 25, 2006.
"Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. July 30, 2006. Retrieved August 25, 2006.
Howson, Elmer T., D. A. Steel, and J. B. Tebo, editors (1922). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1922 edition. New York: Simmons-Boardman. p. 267. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 22, 2006. Retrieved August 25, 2006.
Union Pacific Railroad. "Union Pacific Chronological History". Retrieved August 25, 2006.

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