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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on September 6.

Events

19th century

• 1869 – The first westbound train to travel the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America arrives in San Francisco.
• 1898 – Fifteen people are killed when two spans of the New York and Ottawa Railroad's bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses.

20th century

• 1918 – The Canadian Northern Railway is nationalized, later to become part of Canadian National Railway.
• 1943 – A hot box on Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional passenger train derails the train at Frankford Junction, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people.
• 1960 – Canadian National Railway drives the last spike in its new Optic-Chisel Lake, Manitoba, line.
• 1960 – Maine Central Railroad discontinues all passenger train services to become a freight-only railroad.

21st century

• 2005 – Indonesian transport officials at a meeting in Bandar Lampung announce plans to build a trans-Sumatran railway to connect Banda Aceh to Bakauheni, a distance of 2,151 km (1,337 miles).

Deaths

• 1940 – Leonor F. Loree, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1901–1904, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad –1904, Delaware and Hudson Railroad 1907–1938, Kansas City Southern Railway 1918–1920, and chairman of Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad 1926-1928 (b. 1858).
• 2004 – W. H. Krome George, director of Norfolk Southern Railway 1979-1990, dies (b, 1918).