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September 13

CB&CNSR freight train northbound on the Abercrombie spur in 2003

• 1865 – Algernon S. Buford becomes president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
• 1872 – The first section of the planned railroad connection between Varciorova and Roman, Romania, opens, connecting Piteşti, Bucharest, Galaţi and Roman.
• 1875 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Las Animas, Colorado.
• 2004 – The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (pictured) files its second application to abandon most of its trackage on Cape Breton.

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