1884 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1884.
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[edit] Events
[edit] February events
- February 22 - Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive.
[edit] March events
- March 17 - The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky.
- March - Central Pacific Railroad's El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world, enters service.[1]
[edit] June events
- June 11 - The Pine Bluff and Swan Lake Railway, in Arkansas (later to become part of the Cotton Belt Railroad), is incorporated.[2]
[edit] July events
- July 23 - The Iron Railroad in Ohio is reincorporated as the Iron Railway.
[edit] September events
- September 15 - Opening of first railway in Serbia, from Belgrade to Niš (243 km (151 mi)).[3]
- September 20 - Opening of the Arlbergtunnel (10.25 km (6.37 mi)), completing the Arlberg railway in Austria, the main east–west rail link through the Alps.[4]
[edit] October events
- October - John King succeeds Hugh J. Jewett as president of the Erie Railroad.
[edit] November events
- November 13 - The Hagener Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft in Hagen, Germany, opens its first 2 km (1.2 mi) long horse-car line.
- November 28 - Northern Pacific Railroad establishes the town of Pasco, Washington, at the junction of its lines between Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Portland, Oregon.
[edit] December events
- December 10 - Narrow gauge Franklin and Megantic Railway opens to Kingfield, Maine.[5]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, completes its connection between Needles and Mojave, California.
- The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch (SFRD) is established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- The Smithsonian Institution acquires the John Bull from the Pennsylvania Railroad as the museum's first example of railroad technology.
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr. becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad.
[edit] Births
[edit] July births
- July 6 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (d. 1970).
[edit] December births
- December 9 - Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1954).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] May deaths
- May 17 - George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (b. 1808).
[edit] September deaths
- September 26 - John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1858– (b. 1820).
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Wendel Bollman, designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (b. 1814).
[edit] References
- Biography of John Work Garrett. Retrieved March 2, 2005.
- HistoryLink (2005), This week in state and local history. Retrieved November 28, 2005.
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
- George Muirson Totten. Retrieved February 9, 2005
- Morris, J. C. (1902), Ohio Railway Report. Retrieved July 19, 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- Soylent Communications (2005), Charles Francis Adams, Jr.. Retrieved February 21, 2005.
- White, John H, Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, Railroad History, 154, p. 9-15.
- ^ Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5.
- ^ Beck, Wayne, (August 21, 1998), The History of the Cotton Belt Railroad. Retrieved June 10, 2005. Archived 2009-10-19.
- ^ Ferneyhough, Frank (1975). The History of Railways in Britain. Reading: Osprey. ISBN 0-85045-060-8.
- ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.
- ^ Crittenden, H. Temple (1966). The Maine Scenic Route. McClain Printing Company. p. 51.
