Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 24

1819 – James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
1839 – Gustavus Franklin Swift (pictured), founder of Swift and Company which pioneered the use of refrigerator cars in late 19th century America, is born (d. 1903)
1851 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad 1887–1907, is born (d. 1923).
2002 – In the Igandu train disaster, a large passenger train in Tanzania with over 1,200 people on board rolls backwards down a hill into a stationary goods train, killing 281 people.

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