1816 in rail transport

Events

Unknown date events

* Richard Trevithick moves to Peru with the intention of designing and building steam locomotives for mining operations there.

Births

January births

* January 3 - Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863-1868 (d. 1891).

March births

* March 1 - John Souther, founder of Globe Locomotive Works (d. 1911).

August births

* August 4 - Russell Sage, director for Union Pacific Railroad (d. 1906)
* August 6 - Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel (d. 1888).
* August 24 - Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (d. 1889).

Unknown date births

* Aretas Blood, the executive who created Manchester Locomotive Works, the American manufacturer of steam locomotives (d. 1897).

Deaths

References

* Newcomb, Kenneth W., " [http://www.hemlockgorge.org/FHG_Makers_of_the_Mold/MakersTitlePage.htm The Makers of the Mold] ". Retrieved February 15 2005.
* (September 24 2004), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/gooch.htm Sir Daniel Gooch] ". Retrieved February 9 2005.
* (September 25 2004), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/crampton.htm Thomas Crampton] ". Retrieved February 9 2005.
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