- 1832 in rail transport
Events
May events
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May 23 - The Festiniog Railway Company Incorporated byAct of Parliament to build a railway from Festiniog to Portmadoc inNorth Wales for the carriage of slate and other minerals.June events
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June 9 - TheStrasburg Rail Road , today the oldestshort-line railroad in theUnited States , is incorporated.July events
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July 25 - A cable snaps on an incline of theGranite Railway causing the first rail transport related fatality in theUnited States .November events
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November 23 - After assembling "Delaware",Matthias W. Baldwin builds his first entirely newsteam locomotive , named "Old Ironsides".
*November 26 - TheNew York and Harlem Railroad opens inNew York City .December events
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December 5 - United States - start 'carrying the mail on the railroad' [http://www.usps.com/history/his2.htm#RAIL] .Unknown date events
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Matthias W. Baldwin assembles an English-builtsteam locomotive , the "Delaware", for theNewcastle and Frenchtown Railroad ; this is the firstrailroad locomotive that Baldwin works on.
* The Jefferson Works inPaterson, New Jersey , is reorganized asRogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (later to becomeRogers Locomotive and Machine Works ).
*Ross Winans patents the 8-wheelrailroad car , but the patent is soon disputed by theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad who call onGridley Bryant as an expert witness.Births
January births
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January 13 - Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (d.1870 ).May births
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May 16 -Philip Armour , founder ofArmour and Company and subsidiaryArmour Refrigerator Line (d.1901 ).Deaths
November deaths
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November 14 -Charles Carroll of Carrollton , signer of the Declaration of Independence and a co-founder of theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad (b.1737 ).References
* Mitchell, Frank (March
1999 ), " [http://www.puffingbilly.com.au/fan/heritage/baldwin.htm M. W. Baldwin] ". RetrievedFebruary 15 2005 .
* Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005 ), " [http://avenue.org/nrhs/histjul.htm This Month in Railroad History: July] ". RetrievedJuly 22 2005 .
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