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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 17.
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Events
19th century
- 1831 – The first boiler explosion in the United States occurs when the engineer on the Best Friend of Charleston ties the steam safety pressure release valve shut.
- 1852 – The Somerset Central Railway in England is authorized.
- 1869 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Topeka, reaches Carbondale, Kansas.
- 1872 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Hutchinson.
- 1892 – Brienz Rothorn Bahn, in Switzerland, opens.
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