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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1875.
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[edit] Events
[edit] February events
- February 9 - The first train passes through the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts.
[edit] March events
- March 24 - The Mayor of Los Angeles, California, approves a measure to allow the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad, a predecessor of the Pacific Electric Railway, to extend its line to connect to the Southern Pacific Railroad train station.[1]
[edit] April events
- April 26 - Prince Edward Island Railway operates its first regularly scheduled train between Charlottetown and Georgetown.[2]
[edit] August events
- August 7 - Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad completes construction through the White Mountains for what will become the Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division.[3]
- August 30 - Groundbreaking ceremonies are held in Pembroke, Ontario, for the Canada Central Railway line between Pembroke and Renfrew.[4]
[edit] September events
- September 13 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Las Animas, Colorado.[5]
- September 27 - Railway Jubilee at Darlington (in honour of the Stockton and Darlington Railway). [6]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is founded.
- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad purchases the line between Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas.[5]
- Russian engineer and inventor Fyodor Pirotsky put electrically powered railway cars on the Sestroretsks railway Miller's line (not far from the station Miller's pier).[7]
[edit] Births
[edit] May births
- May 9 - H. P. M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922 (d. 1948).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January deaths
- January 18 - William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway (b. 1807).[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California, The Street Railway History of Los Angeles. Retrieved March 24, 2006.
- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2006-03-17. http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm. Retrieved 2006-04-26.
- ^ Johnson, Ron (undated). Maine Central R.R. Mountain Division. 470 Railroad Club. p. 24.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 23, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 30, 2005.
- ^ a b Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- ^ The Railway Year Book 1912, Railway Publishing Company, London.
- ^ Chepurin, Sergey; Arkady Nikolayenko (May 2007). "Sestroretsk and Primorskaya railways(Сестрорецкая и Приморская железные дороги)" (in ru). http://terijoki.spb.ru/trk_about.php3. http://terijoki.spb.ru/railway/rw_dir_sestr.php#red. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
- ^ William Henry Aspinwall. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
