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

Events

19th century

• 1881 - Kate Shelley prevents a train with 200 passengers from going over the Honey Creek Bridge after it was washed out during a flash flood near Des Moines, Iowa.

20th century

• 1927 – Hebikubo Station (蛇窪駅), later renamed as Togoshi-kōen Station, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, opens.
• 1942 – The first political deportees train leaves Compiègne station in France to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1978 – A plastic bag of dirty linens carelessly placed against the electric heater in the vestibule of a sleeping car traveling between Penzance and London Paddington, England causes the Taunton train fire.
• 1993 – The last regular freight train between Turkey and Armenia crosses the international border separating the two countries.
• 2000 – Amtrak introduces its new corporate logo to replace a logo that has been nicknamed by some as the "pointless arrow". The new logo was designed with a "shape and suggestion of movement [to] convey the comfort and uniqueness of the rail experience."

21st century

• 2013 – An unattended 73-car freight train carrying crude oil runs away and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, destroying roughly half of the downtown. See also: Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

Births

• 1884 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central Railroad system, is born (d. 1970).

Deaths

• 1942 – Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1910–41, dies (b. 1861).