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- Events January events February events March events April events May events June events July events August events October events Unknown date events
- Births March births July births October births Unknown date births
- Deaths May deaths Unknown date deaths
- References
{{Year in rail transport|prev=1880|curr=1881|next=1882|decade=1880}}Events January events - January 17 – Regular train service over the Prince of Wales Bridge on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway begins.[1]
February events- February 3 – The Seney Syndicate met at Seney's New York bank and organized the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (which would later become the Nickel Plate Road).
- February 17 – The first train operates between Norwood, Ohio, and Lebanon, Ohio, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway.
March events - March 1 – The Mexican Southern Railroad is incorporated with Ulysses S. Grant, former President of the United States, as its president.
- March 8 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico.
April events- April 13 – The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (later known as the Nickel Plate Road) purchases the Buffalo, Cleveland & Chicago Railway
- April 14 – The Oregon Short Line Railroad is established to build a rail connection between Granger, Wyoming, and Huntington, Oregon.
May events- May 16 – The Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric tramway, is opened in Berlin by Siemens & Halske.[2]
- May 19 – Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad reach El Paso, Texas.
- May 28 – A.B. Rogers on his birthday discovers the pass through the Rocky Mountains that will bear his name, Rogers Pass.
June events - June 9 – The Canada Central Railway is merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- June 11 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad connects to El Paso, Texas.
July events - July 2 – Assassination of James A. Garfield: James A. Garfield, President of the United States, is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., dying on September 19 of a resultant infection.
- July 4 – Darjeeling Himalayan Railway opened throughout to Darjeeling, India.
- July 6 – Kate Shelley prevents a train with 200 passengers from going over the Honey Creek Bridge after it was washed out during a flash flood near Des Moines, Iowa.
- July 26 – Construction crews on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad's Alpine Tunnel, in Colorado, break through to connect both ends of the tunnel.
August events - August 22 – The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC) commences operation over a 14.1-mile (2.25-kilometer) run through the Appalachian Mountains.
- August 26 – The first train operates over the Red River Bridge into Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
October events- October 17 – First section of Royal Saxon State Railways narrow gauge railway ({{RailGauge|750mm|lk=on}} gauge) opens, between Wilkau and Kirchberg in the German Empire.
- October 20 – First section of Barbados Railway opens on {{RailGauge|3ft 6in|lk=on}} gauge between Bridgetown and Carrington.
Unknown date events- E.W. Clark & Co., a private banking firm in Philadelphia, purchases the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (a predecessor of the Norfolk & Western) at a foreclosure auction.
- The Richmond and Danville Railroad leases the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway.
- Henry Villard becomes president of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
- The French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique purchases a controlling interest in the Panama Railway Company.
- John Souther retires from the steam locomotive manufacturing company that he founded, Globe Locomotive Works.
- Ephraim Shay takes out the first patent on his Shay locomotive design.
- Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway begins.
- The first standard gauge railroad in China is opened from Tangshan to Xugezhuang ({{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}}) for coal traffic.
BirthsMarch births- March 22 – Arturo Caprotti, Italian inventor of Caprotti valve gear for steam locomotives (d. 1938).[3]
July births- July 8 - Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads (d. 1935).
October births - October 30 – Charles E. Johnston, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928–1938 (d. 1951).
Unknown date births- Martin W. Clement, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1935–1948 (d. 1966).
Deaths May deaths - May 21 – Thomas Alexander Scott, president of Union Pacific Railroad 1871–1872, dies (b. 1823).
Unknown date deaths- William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1810).
References- {{Cite web |last=Churcher, Colin |date=21 May 2005 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm |title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history |access-date=4 June 2005}}
- {{Cite web |author=Glenbow Museum |date=2005 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050624090314/https://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/libhtm/may23.htm |title=This week in Canadian history |access-date=27 May 2005}}
- {{Cite web |author=Kansas City Southern Historical Society |url=http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm |title=The Kansas City Southern Lines |access-date=15 August 2005}}
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.channel1.com/users/hemlock/MakersTransportation.htm |title=The Makers of the Mold |last=Newcomb |first=Kenneth W. |access-date=13 May 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313220204/http://www.channel1.com/users/hemlock/MakersTransportation.htm |archive-date=2005-03-13}}
- {{Cite web |author=President and Fellows of Harvard College |date=2004 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205121925/http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/154/ |title=20th century great American business leaders – Martin W. Clement |access-date=23 February 2005}}
- {{Cite book |author=Santa Fe Railroad |date=1945 |title=Along Your Way |publisher=Rand McNally |location=Chicago, Ill.}}
- {{Cite journal |last=White |first=John H., Jr. |authorlink=John H. White Jr. |date=Spring 1986 |title=America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders |journal=Railroad History |publisher=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society |volume=154 |pages=9–15 |jstor=43523785}}
- {{White - History of the American locomotive}}
1. ^Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (January 8, 2006), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm |date=2006-04-27 }}. Retrieved January 17, 2006. 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.siemens.pl/upload/images/TS-Siemens_lekkie%20pojazdy_historia.pdf |title=The Siemens tram from past to present |publisher=Siemens |accessdate=2011-06-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725013704/http://www.siemens.pl/upload/images/TS-Siemens_lekkie%20pojazdy_historia.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-25 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite book|author =Marshall, John|title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|edition=2nd|location=Oxford|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2003|isbn=0-901461-22-9|authorlink=John Marshall (railway historian)}}
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