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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 15.

Events

19th century

• 1894 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world.

20th century

• 1914 – Yujiro Nakamura succeeds Ryutaro Nomura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
• 1918 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens a new station in San Bernardino, California, to replace the former California Southern Railroad station that was destroyed by fire in 1916.
• 1923 – United States President Warren G. Harding drives the golden spike on the Alaska Railroad.
• 1933 – The Atlantic City Railroad changes its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
• 1936 – The New York Central introduces the Mercury passenger train between Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1963 – Yabitsu Station in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan, is opened for regular service.
• 1972 – Shin-Nihombashi and Bakurochō stations are opened on JR East's rapid transit Sōbu Line.

21st century

• 2004 – Dennis H. Miller is promoted to president of the Iowa Interstate Railroad.

Births

• 1800 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad," is born (d. 1878).
• 1843 – Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1888-1893, is born (d. 1919).
• 1864 – Franklin Knight Lane, Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner 1905-1913, chairman of same in 1913, is born (d. 1921).

Deaths

• 1890 – Silas Seymour, chief engineer and/or consulting engineer for several railroads in New York in the mid- to late 19th century (b. 1817).
• 1976 - William C. Coleman, president of Monon Railroad, (b. 1901).