1861 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 22 - Passenger service begins on Strasburg Rail Road with a visit from Abraham Lincoln.

April events

* April - Nathaniel Marsh succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad. [cite web|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=2005-03-15]

May events

* May 13 - Line opened between Karachi and Kochi (km to mi|169|abbr=yes) on 5ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge, the first railway in present-day Pakistan. [cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=The Guinness Railway Book|date=1989|publisher=Guinness|location=Enfield|isbn=0-85112-359-7]
* May 24 - The Great Train Raid of 1861 is conducted by Stonewall Jackson.

June events

* June 16 - Battle of Vienna, Virginia, is the first time in history a railroad was used tactically in battle.

Unknown date events

* Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company in Berwick, Pennsylvania, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, begins manufacturing railroad infrastructure parts.

Births

January births

* January 28 - Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1910-1941 (d. 1942).

April births

* April 26 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (d. 1919).

November births

* November 2 - Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892–1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902–1912, Director of the London and North Eastern Railway 1912–1945 (d. 1946).

Deaths

References

* (January 16 2005), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/managers.htm Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers] ". Retrieved February 10 2005.