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// array for the days of the month
SpeederDate = new Array(32);
SpeederDate[0] = '';
SpeederDate[1] = '<B>November 1, 1865</B>:  A tank car designed to carry oil takes on its initial load, Titusville, PA.';
SpeederDate[2] = '<B>November 2, 1902</B>:  The <I>Wreck of Old 97</I> occurs when Joseph Andrew "Steve" Broady\'s mail train jumps a trestle, Danville, VA.';
SpeederDate[3] = '<B>November 3</B>:  Submit a historical fact about railroading for consideration.';
SpeederDate[4] = '<B>November 4, 1874</B>:  The East Broad Top Railroad begins operations to Robertsdale, PA.';
SpeederDate[5] = '<B>November 5, 1915</B>:  The Delaware Lackawanna &amp; Western prepares to open the Lackawanna Cut-off and Tunkhannock Viaduct.';
SpeederDate[6] = '<B>November 6, 1869</B>:  Supreme Court rules the Union Pacific &amp; Central Pacific Railroads completed as an acceptable railroad.';
SpeederDate[7] = '<B>November 7, 1885</B>:  The last spike is driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on Canada\'s first transcontinental railroad.';
SpeederDate[8] = '<B>November 8, 1974</B>:  The ICC approves the ill-fated Union Pacific-Rock Island merger.';
SpeederDate[9] = '<B>November 9, 1979</B>:  Burlington Northern operates the first train over Wyoming\'s Powder River Basin line.';
SpeederDate[10] = '<B>November 10, 1938</B>:  Mobile &amp Ohio and Gulf, Mobile, &amp; Northern merge to form Gulf, Mobile, &amp; Ohio.';
SpeederDate[11] = '<B>November 11, 1953</B>:  A Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train derails and slams into a cement wall at Thirtieth Street Station, Philadelphia, PA.';
SpeederDate[12] = '<B>November 12, 1991</B>:  Norfolk &amp; Western and the Wabash (leased since 1961) merge.';
SpeederDate[13] = '<B>November 13, 1927</B>:  Holland Tunnel, under the Hudson River, opens.';
SpeederDate[14] = '<B>November 14, 1994</B>:  The first passenger train runs through the Chunnel, Europe.';
SpeederDate[15] = '<B>November 15, 1967</B>:  Norfolk &amp; Western operates "the world\'s longest train," a 500-car coal train (record lasts 22 years).';
SpeederDate[16] = '<B>November 16, 1893</B>:  The Kulp-Thomas Company begins construction of a lumbering tramroad, Milroy, PA.';
SpeederDate[17] = '<B>November 17, 1907</B>:  The Pennsylvania Railroad begins using Washington Union Station.';
SpeederDate[18] = '<B>November 18, 1883</B>:  Standard Time is adopted by railroads (Congress will pass the Standard Time Act 25 years later).';
SpeederDate[19] = '<B>November 19, 2001</B>:  Surface Transportation Board approves Dakota, Minnesota, &amp; Eastern\'s plans to build in to the Powder River Basin.';
SpeederDate[20] = '<B>November 20, 1961</B>:  Union Pacific #844, the only unretired steamer, begins its\' excursion career.';
SpeederDate[21] = '<B>November 21, 1980</B>:  Burlington Northern absorbs St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway.';
SpeederDate[22] = '<B>November 22</B>:  Submit a historical fact about railroading for consideration.';
SpeederDate[23] = '<B>November 23</B>:  Submit a historical fact about railroading for consideration.';
SpeederDate[24] = '<B>November 24, 1832</B>:  Philadelphia, Germantown, &amp Norris-town operates first Baldwin standard gauge locomotive, <I>Old Ironsides</I>.';
SpeederDate[25] = '<B>November 25</B>:  Submit a historical fact about railroading for consideration.';
SpeederDate[26] = '<B>November 26, 1910</B>:  Penn Station, New York City, prepares to open doors tomorrow.';
SpeederDate[27] = '<B>November 27, 1901</B>:  Schuylkill &amp; Juniata Railroad merges with the Pennsylvania Railroad.';
SpeederDate[28] = '<B>November 28, 1977</B>:  West Philadelphia, PA residents are evacuated after two Conrail tank cars overturn.';
SpeederDate[29] = '<B>November 29, 1925</B>:  Wreck at Altoona, PA, inspires Vernon Dalhart to write and sing <I>M11</I>.';
SpeederDate[30] = '<B>November 30, 1935</B>:  Reading locomotive explodes near Shamokin, PA.';
SpeederDate[31] = '';
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