1877 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1877.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 1 - Opening of first railway in Burma (Myanmar), from Rangoon (Yangon) to Prome (Pyay) (257 km (160 mi) of metre gauge).[1]
[edit] July events
- July 14 - Workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad walk off their jobs in an act that is seen as the start of the great railroad strike of 1877.[2]
- July 16 - Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.[3]
- July 19 - The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (later absorbed by the Long Island Rail Road) opens.[4]
- July 20 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers riot in Baltimore, Maryland. Nine railroad employees are killed as the Maryland militia attempts to quell the riot.
- July 21 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.
- July 24 - Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. Patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car.
[edit] August events
- August 31 - The first 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railroad in America, the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, begins operations.[5]
[edit] November events
- November 4 - Opening of Gustave Eiffel's Maria Pia Bridge carrying the railway across the Douro into Porto, Portugal.
[edit] December events
- December 27 - The Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway opens, traversing a route from Montreal through Lachute to Hull.[6]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles, California, cross the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona.
- William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is promoted to President of the New York Central system.
[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 7 - Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (d. 1943).[7]
[edit] Unknown date births
- Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds, England (d. 1951).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January deaths
- January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).
[edit] April deaths
- April 22 - James P. Kirkwood, designer of Starrucca Viaduct (b. 1807).
[edit] August deaths
- August 3 - William Butler Ogden, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway (b. 1805).
[edit] September deaths
- September 2 - Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Express, one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States, dies (b. 1804).
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Oliver Ames, Jr., president of Union Pacific Railroad 1866-1871, brother of Oakes Ames (b. 1807).[8][9]
- Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (b. 1817).
[edit] References
- Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 12 and July 22, 2005.
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
- ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7. OCLC 24175552.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This Month in Railroad History - July". http://avenue.org/nrhs/histjul.htm. Retrieved 2006-07-14.
- ^ Foner, Philip S. (1977). The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. ISBN 0-87348-828-8.
- ^ "The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway". http://www.lirrhistory.com/nymbry.html. Retrieved 2005-07-18.
- ^ "A Chronology of Bedford's Railroad History". March 18, 2000). http://www.bedforddepot.org/RRHistory.html. Retrieved 2005-08-31.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005.
- ^ Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7. OCLC 50731001.
- ^ Spencer Marks (2005), The Ames Family of North Easton, MA. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
- ^ Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific: Significant Individuals. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
