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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 4.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1831 – The John Bull, the oldest surviving operable steam locomotive in the world, arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Liverpool.
1861 – The Staten Island Railway is placed into receivership with William Henry Vanderbilt as receiver.[1][2][3]
1867 – The Boston and Albany Railroad is formed through the merger of four smaller railroads in New England.

1995 – The F Market heritage streetcar line in San Francisco opens using restored PCC streetcars.

1884 – Wilhelm Engerth, Austrian architect and engineer who designed the first practical mountain locomotive, dies (b. 1814).
1905 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway 1877-1902, dies (b. 1840).
1939 – Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1920-1939, dies (b. 1869).[4]

Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Pubishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
Roess, Roger P.; Sansome, Gene (2013). The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System. Springer. pp. 223–247. ISBN 978-3-642-30484-2. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
Leigh, Irvin; Matus, Paul (January 2002). "Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History". thethirdrail.net. The Third Rail Online. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1939.

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