1888 in rail transport

1888 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 24 - Grand Trunk Railway acquires the Northern and Northwestern Railway.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved December 28 2005.]

April events

* April 1 - The Old Colony Railroad leases the Boston and Providence Railroad for a period of 99 years.

June events

* June 15 - The first train to Casper, Wyoming, operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway, arrives. [cite web|author="Casper Star-Tribune"|date=June 22 2005|url=http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt|title=BP Amoco Timeline|accessdate=2005-06-22]

August events

* August 12 - Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary companies complete construction of the final link in what has come to be known as the Surf Line connecting Los Angeles and San Diego. [cite book|author=Duke, Donald, and Kistler, Stan|title=Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California|year=1963|publisher=Golden West Books|location=San Marino, California|isbn=0-87095-009-6|pages=p 43]

September events

* September 10 - The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the first passenger train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in the United States west of Chicago, Illinois, on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities. [cite web|url=http://www.mrha.com/history.cfm|title=A Brief History of the Milwaukee Road|author=Milwaukee Road Historical Association|accessdate=2006-04-28]
* September 18 - The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway's Chaudière Extension departs for Chaudière Falls, Ontario (near Ottawa). [cite web|author=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages|date=September 7 2005|url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm|title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history|accessdate=2005-09-18]

December events

* December 29 - First train crosses Poughkeepsie Bridge, New York. [Structurae|id=s0001420|title=Poughkeepsie Bridge]

Unknown date events

* Spring - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway begins through service between Kansas City, Kansas, and Chicago, Illinois, over the railroad's newly completed line. [cite book|author=Santa Fe Railroad|date=1945|title=Along Your Way|publisher=Rand McNally|location=Chicago, Illinois]
* Sir William Cornelius Van Horne succeeds George Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. [cite web|author="Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7754|title=Biography|accessdate=2007-07-18] [cite book|author=Knowles, Valerie|title=From Telegrapher to Titan : the life of William C. Van Horne|date=2004|publisher=Dundurn|location=Toronto|isbn=1-55002-488-4]
* The Canadian Pacific acquires control of the Soo Line, renaming it to the "Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad".

Births

Deaths

April deaths

* April 19 - Thomas Russell Crampton, English steam locomotive designer who produced the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel (b. 1816). [cite web|author=Steamindex|date=September 25 2004|url=http://www.steamindex.com/people/crampton.htm|title=Thomas Crampton|accessdate=2005-02-09]

June deaths

* June 14 - Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1822).

References


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