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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on December 12.

1901 – Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt announces the railroad's plan to enter New York City — to tunnel under the Hudson River and to build a grand station on the West Side of Manhattan, a station that would become Pennsylvania Station.
1911 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates its first extra-fare named passenger train, the Santa Fe De Luxe between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
1988 – Two commuter trains collide at around 8:00 AM (local time) in the Clapham Junction rail crash, on the southeast side of London, England.
2004 – SNCF disallows smoking on all French TGV trains.
2004 – Swiss Federal Railways begins the first phase of implementing its Rail2000 plan to improve service.

1849 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1920).

Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)CS1 maint: year (link) p. 388.

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