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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 21.

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Events

19th century

1831 – The Boston and Providence Railroad is incorporated and chartered to build a railroad connection between Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
1856 – Illinois Central Railroad opens Great Central Station in Chicago.[1]

20th century

1959 – Soo Line 2719 hauls the last of Soo Line Railroad's steam locomotive-powered trains in revenue service on a round-trip excursion between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in the largest corporate bankruptcy in United States history thus far. The trains continue to run.

Deaths

1893 – Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California, dies (b. 1824).
2015 – Tama_(cat),a cat that stationmaster ob Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Japan,dies.

References

Lind, Alan R. (1986). Limiteds Along the Lakefront: The Illinois Central in Chicago. Park Forest, IL: Transport History Press. pp. 5–7. OCLC 20171887.

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