1832 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1832.

Events

May 23 – The Festiniog Railway Company Incorporated by Act of Parliament to build a railway from Festiniog to Portmadoc in North Wales for the carriage of slate and other minerals.

June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road, today the oldest short-line railroad in the United States, is incorporated.

July 25 – A cable snaps on an incline of the Granite Railway causing the first rail transport related fatality in the United States.

November 23 – After assembling Delaware, Matthias W. Baldwin builds his first entirely new steam locomotive, named Old Ironsides.^[1]
November 26 – The New York and Harlem Railroad opens in New York City.

December 5 – First carriage of United States mail on the railroad, to West Chester, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Matthias W. Baldwin assembles an English-built steam locomotive, the Delaware, for the Newcastle and Frenchtown Railroad; this is the first railroad locomotive that Baldwin works on.
The Jefferson Works in Paterson, New Jersey, is reorganized as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (later to become Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works).
Ross Winans patents the 8-wheel railroad car, but the patent is soon disputed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad who call on Gridley Bryant as an expert witness.

Mitchell, Frank (March 1999), M. W. Baldwin. Retrieved February 15, 2005.
Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 22, 2005.

^ Westing, Fred (1966). The Locomotives that Baldwin Built. New York: Bonanza Books. p. 14.
^ U.S. Post Office Department (1885). History of the Railway Mail Service: a chapter in the history of postal affairs in the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. p. 28.