1880 in rail transport

none 1879 1880 1881 1880 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 Railroad History Timeline: 1880 https://web.archive.org/web/20050419101204/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1880s/TimeLine1880.htm 2005-04-19 . Retrieved February 12, 2006. February 18 – Adna Anderson succeeds William Milnor Roberts as Engineer-in-Chief of Northern Pacific Railway. March events March 20 The first Southern Pacific Railroad train reaches Tucson, Arizona. The Miami Valley Railway is sold from receivership to the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railway. March 27 – The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Union Pacific Railroad reach an agreement to end hostilities over track construction in Colorado; in the Treaty of Boston, the D&RG agrees that it will not build tracks south of Española, New Mexico, the Santa Fe agrees that it will not build tracks into either Denver or Leadville for ten years, and the Union Pacific agrees not to build any track in the Colorado Rockies.Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society This Month in Railroad History: March http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm March 27, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060417075629/http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm 17 April 2006 liveSanta Fe: A Chronology http://atsfirc.qstation.org/atsfhist.html ATSF Internet Resource Center Blaszak, Michael W. March 27, 2011Griffin, James R. Rio Grande Railroad 2003 Voyageur Press 27–28 https://books.google.com/books?id=ARU1AAKGuxYC March 27, 2011Hilton, George W. American Narrow Gauge Railroads 1990 Stanford University Press 346 https://books.google.com/books?id=7POj8GvF4sIC March 27, 2011 April events April 15 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Albuquerque, New Mexico. May events May 11 – Mussel Slough Tragedy: A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turns deadly when a gun battle breaks out, leaving 7 dead. May 13 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June events June 8 – The Miami Valley Railway is reincorporated as the Cincinnati Northern Railway. June 15 – Rebuilt Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof in Germany opened. June 18 – First section of railroad in Guatemala begins operation, connecting Puerto San José and Escuintla (914mm gauge).Ross, Delmer G. 980947 The construction of the Interoceanic Railroad of Guatemala The Americas 33 1977 3 430–56 10.2307/980947 147590795 July events July 1 – The Callander and Oban Railway is opened throughout to Oban in Scotland. 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.Serpico, Philip C. Santa Fé Route to the Pacific 1988 Omni Publications Palmdale, California 0-88418-000-X July 20 – Construction on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches Leadville, Colorado. August August 11 – The Wennington Junction rail crash in England kills 8 people. 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. Lima Machine Works ships the first Shay locomotive to Ephraim Shay's design to a logger in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 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. Southern Pacific begins service to the Hotel Del Monte; the service will in turn become known as the Del Monte.Spradling David The Del Monte Passenger Train https://www.monterey.org/library/About-Us/Blogs/Library-Blogs/the-del-monte-passenger-train Monterey Public Library 9 November 2019 Births June births June 21 – Josiah Stamp, Chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1926–1941 (d. 1941).https://steamindex.com/people/stamp.htm steamindex.com Sir Josiah Charles Stamp (later Lord Stamp of Shortlands) August 22, 2007 Deaths January deaths January 1 – Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1796). December deaths December 1 – Thomas Seavey Hall, American inventor of railroad signalling systems (b. 1827). References Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Retrieved July 18, 2005. Railroad History Timeline 1880. Retrieved March 23, 2005. Reitwiesner, William Addams, The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne. Retrieved October 11, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.