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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 13.

Events

19th century

• 1857 – Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. patent 16,381 for a railroad scale.
• 1864 – Samuel C. Pomeroy succeeds Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
• 1874 – The Bergen city council in Norway begins issuing stock for the Voss Line, with 400,000 Norwegian speciedaler (NOK 1.6 million) issued.

20th century

• 1928 – Henry Clay Hall leaves the Interstate Commerce Commission upon the appointment of his successor.

Births

• 1832 – Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (d. 1870).

Deaths

• 1883 – Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company, dies (b. 1817).
• 1931 – Kálmán Kandó, Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902, dies (b. 1869).