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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on February 11.

Events

19th century

• 1859 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is chartered in Kansas.

20th century

• 1912 – Togura Station, in Chikuma, Nagano, Japan, opens.
• 1918 – The roof of the Portland–Lewiston Interurban carbarn in Gray, Maine, collapses under heavy snow.
• 1941 – The first Gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo.

Deaths

• 1943 – Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900-1905, dies (b. 1859).
• 1950 – Victor V. Boatner, president of Peoria and Pekin Union Railway 1921-, Chicago Great Western Railway 1929-1931, dies (b. 1884).