Events

February events

  • February 4 – The Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad is incorporated in Ohio.
  • February 7 – The Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, the earliest predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, is incorporated.
  • February 10 – The Illinois Central Railroad is chartered.
  • February 25 – The first passenger train on the Milwaukee Road operates over what is then known as the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad between Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

April events

  • April 19 – The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, in New York state, is chartered.

May events

  • May 17 – Opening of first railway in Peru, linking the Pacific port of Callao and the capital Lima ( of standard gauge), later part of the Ferrocarril del Centro.

June events

  • June – The first "refrigerated boxcar" enters service on the Northern Railroad (New York).

July events

  • July 4 – Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the Pacific Railroad Company, a railroad later to become the Missouri Pacific Railroad

August events

  • August 2 – The Staten Island Railway is incorporated.

November events

  • November 1 – Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway officially opened in Russia.

December events

  • December 22 – The first railway operates in India, hauling construction material in Roorkee.
  • December 25 – Opening of first railway in Chile, from Caldera to Copiapó ( of standard gauge climbing ().

Unknown date events

  • The oldest line to become a part of the Southern Pacific Railroad system, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway begins construction between Houston, Texas, and Alleyton, Texas.
  • The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad changes its name to the Mohawk Valley Railroad.

Births

March births

  • March 1 – Edward Ponsonby, director for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway beginning in 1895 and chairman of same 1908–1920 (died 1920).

June births

  • June 24 – Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad 1887–1907 (died 1923).

September births

  • September 16 – Henry Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) 1896–1911 (died 1923).

October births

  • October 5 – Frank W. Arnold, a Grand Master and Secretary-Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, is born (died 1917).

References

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