This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 26.

• 1846 – John M. Forbes becomes president of the Michigan Central Railroad.

• 1906 – New Haven Railroad completes the property acquisition of Hartford, Manchester and Rockville Tramway.^[1]
• 1918 – The Council of the People's Commissars in Russia issues a decree "for the centralization of control, the protection of railroads and increase in their capacity."
• 1931 – The Uwajima Railway receives permission to operate gasoline-powered locomotives over what is now known as the Yodo Line in Shikoku, Japan.
• 1953 – Japanese Government Railways opens the Uwejima Line extension from Yoshinobu to Ekawasaki.

• 2005 – Fire destroys the 75-year-old Deval Tower (pictured) in Des Plaines, Illinois; the tower housed one of the few remaining manual interlocking mechanisms still in use on American railroads. The tower's current owner, Union Pacific Railroad, does not plan to rebuild it.