1864 in rail transport

1864 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 10 - The Illinois Central, Columbus and Indianapolis and Richmond and Covington railroads sign an agreement for joint operation as the Great Central Line between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, headed by the Indiana Central Railway.
* January 13 - Samuel C. Pomeroy succeeds Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

June events

* June 3 - The first revenue trains operate over the Central Pacific Railroad between Sacramento, California and Newcastle, California.
* June 29 - Beloeil, Quebec, Canada: 99 killed when an immigrant train failed to stop at an open swing bridge and fell into the Richelieu River. May also be called St-Hilaire train disaster.

July events

* July - Samuel Marsh succeeds Nathaniel Marsh for a second term as president of the Erie Railroad.
* July 2 - The Northern Pacific Railway is chartered to build a northern transcontinental railroad in the United States.

August events

* August 24 - The United States Postal Service inaugurates the first railway post office route in the United States when Chicago Assistant Postmaster George B. Armstrong authorizes the route on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. [http://www.usps.com/history/his2.htm (USPS)]

October events

* October - Robert H. Berdell succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.

Unknown date events

* Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the Hudson River Railroad.
* Murray, Dougal and Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Milton, Pennsylvania.

Births

February births

* February 6 - George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (d. 1923).

June births

* June 8 - Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type (d. 1913).

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

* Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1784).

References

* " [http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents] ". Retrieved March 15 2005.
* (April 27 2004), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/garratt.htm Herbert William Garratt] ". Retrieved February 9 2005.
* United States Postal Service, " [http://www.usps.com/history/his2.htm History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993: The Postal Role in U.S. Development] ". Retrieved August 28 2005.
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