Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 4

1857 – The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, to St. Louis.
1896 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road, dies (b. 1827).
1906 – Francis Webb (pictured), Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway, dies (b. 1836).
2005 – Lalu Prasad, India's Railway Minister, presents his Rs.532 billion ($12 billion) budget for Indian Railways for 2005-06. The network of more than 9,000 passenger trains will not increase passenger fares, will add 46 new trains, increase frequencies on 10 others and plans to inaugurate new high-speed train service between New Delhi and Kolkata and another between New Delhi and Chennai.

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