Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 24

Early advertisement for a Tiffany refrigerator car

1870 – The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.
1877 – Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car (pictured).
1892 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880, dies (b. 1810).
1941 – Canadian National 2-8-2 "Mikado" No. 3254 collided head on with Great Northern 4-6-2 "Pacific" No. 1351 on North Road Cut. No. 1351 was subsequently sold for scrap while No. 3254 has been preserved and even used in excursion service. Albeit, No. 3254's frame horns have been bent with the frame bowed to one side ever since the collision took place.
1986 – The United States Interstate Commerce Commission denies the merger of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad citing an excessive amount of parallel track as one reason for the denial.