1857 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 13 - Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded US patent|16381 for a railroad scale.

February events

* February 9 - The Central Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Nebraska Territory to build a railroad from the Missouri River through the Rocky Mountains to Washington Territory. [cite web|title=An Act to Incorporate the Central Pacific Railroad Company| url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mal:29:./temp/~ammem_5Auu::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,scsm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mffbib,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,mfd,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhbtnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs|work= [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress] |year=1858|accessdate=2006-05-18]

April events

* April 11 - The Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway company (PLM) is formed in France by amalgamation of the Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) and the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon (PL) companies.

May events

* May 7 - Formal opening of Midland Railway Leicester–Hitchin line, England.

June events

* June 4 - The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.

August events

* August 30 - Opening of first railway in Argentina, from Buenos Aires to the suburb of Floresta (km to mi|10|abbr=yes of 5ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge). [cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=The Guinness Railway Book|date=1989|publisher=Guinness|location=Enfield|isbn=0-85112-359-7]

October events

* October - Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad. [cite web|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=2005-03-15]

December events

* December 15 - George S. Griggs is awarded US patent|18883 for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird.

Unknown date events

* Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works.
* Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad.
* The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars.
* Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in U.S.
* Locomotion No. 1 is placed on display in Darlington, England, the first historic steam locomotive to be publicly preserved.

Births

January births

* January 31 - George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922 (d. 1933). [cite book|author=Rogers, H. C. B.|title=G. J. Churchward: a locomotive biography|publisher=George Allen & Unwin|location=London|date=1975|isbn=0-04-385069-3]

November births

* November 17 - William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 (d. 1940). [citation|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 30 1940|url=http://www.geocities.com/bevshul/OHS/articles/Storey1877.htm|title=W. B. Storey Dies|accessdate=2005-08-19] [cite book| author=Waters, Lawrence L.|title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe|publisher=University of Kansas Press |location=Lawrence, Kansas|year=1950|pages=p 43-44]

Deaths

Unknown date deatha

* Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794).

April deaths

* April 20 - George Hennet, English railway contractor (b. 1799). [cite book|last=Kay|first=Peter|title=Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history|publisher=Platform 5|date=1991|location=Sheffield|isbn=1-87252-442-7]

References

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