1880 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 9 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico.
* February 12 - The Tawas and Bay County Railroad in Michigan purchases the Lake Huron and Southwestern Railway. [MichiganRailroads.com " [http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1880s/TimeLine1880.htm Railroad History Timeline: 1880] ". Retrieved February 12 2006.]

March events

* March 20 - The first Southern Pacific Railroad train reaches Tucson, Arizona.
* March 20 - The Miami Valley Railway is sold from receivership to the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railway.

April events

* April 15 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Albuquerque, New Mexico.

June events

* June 8 - The Miami Valley Railway is reincorporated as the Cincinnati Northern Railway.

July events

* July 2 - The first revenue trains reach Leadville, Colorado, on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad.
* July 10 - The California Southern Railroad is organized to build a rail connection between San Diego and a connection with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California.cite book| author=Serpico, Philip C.| title=Santa Fé Route to the Pacific| year=1988| publisher=Omni Publications| Location=Palmdale, California| id=ISBN 0-88418-000-X| ]
* July 20 - Construction on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches Leadville, Colorado.

October events

* October 1 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches San Marcial, New Mexico.
* October 23 - Following its organization in July, the California Southern Railroad is officially chartered.

Unknown date events

* Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, begins construction west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
* Eugene V. Debs becomes the Grand Secretary of American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
* The Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company is chartered as a holding company to acquire railroads that the Richmond and Danville Railroad itself couldn't.
* Alonzo C. Mather forms the Mather Stock Car Company to build stock cars of his own design.
* The Peninsular Car Company delivers the first refrigerator cars to Swift and Company, forming the basis of Swift Refrigerator Line.
* The Merchants Despatch enters the refrigerated transit business.
* Mexican President General Manuel González grants a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen to build the Chihuahua al Pacífico

Births

June births

* June 21 - Josiah Stamp, Chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1926-1941 (d. 1941). [cite web|url=http://www.steamindex.com/people/stamp.htm|work=Steam Index|title=Sir Josiah Charles Stamp|accessdate=2007-08-22]

Deaths

January deaths

* January 1 - Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1796).

References

* " [http://www.raftecho.com/royalgorge-arkansasriver/denver-rio-railroad/ Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad] ". Retrieved July 18 2005.
* " [http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1880s/TimeLine1880.htm Railroad History Timeline 1880] ". Retrieved March 23 2005.
* Reitwiesner, William Addams, " [http://www.wargs.com/political/thorne.html The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne] ". Retrieved October 11 2005.
* Santa Fe Railroad (1945), "Along Your Way", Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.