1887 in rail transport

none February 2012 1886 1887 1888 1880 thumb|right|Seal of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission, an independent agency from 1887 to 1995, which monitored railroads to ensure that they complied with the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. Events January events January 28 – Jay Gould purchases the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway at foreclosure then deeds it to the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad.http://www.mopac.org/history_stlims.asp Predecessors, Subsidiaries and Acquisitions of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company Missouri Pacific Historical Society 2005 January 28, 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20051001181523/http://www.mopac.org/history_stlims.asp October 1, 2005 February events February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act in the United States is signed into law, creating the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the prices for hauling freight on American railroads. March events April events April 20 – The North British Railway's Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, reconstructed after its collapse in 1879, is reopened and then shortly closed thereafter.Thomas John The North British Railway, vol. 2 1975 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-6699-8 April 26 – At 11:00 am a silver spike is driven in a ceremony in Indian Territory connecting the Kansas and Texas branches of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The town of Purcell, Oklahoma, rises at the location, named in honor of ATSF railroad director Edward Benton (E.B.) Purcell, of Manhattan, Kansas. May events May 20 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway consolidates eight of its subsidiary railroads in California into the California Central Railway.Serpico, Philip C. Santa Fé Route to the Pacific 1988 Omni Publications Palmdale, California 0-88418-000-X 23–24 May 31 – The first Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train over the newly constructed San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railroad line arrives in Los Angeles. June events June – The Péchot-Bourdon locomotive is patented in France.David Joy Engines that Bend: narrow gauge articulated locomotives Southend Atlantic Publishers 2012 978-1-902827-23-0 19 June 9 – Construction of the first railway in Taiwan, between Keelung and Taipei began. June 20 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway officially opens Victoria Terminus in Bombay.https://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/945rev.pdf PDF Advisory Body Evaluation: Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (India) UNESCO – World heritage – documents associated with listing 2004 UNESCO 2008-12-03 July events July 13 – The Chateaugay Railway, a predecessor of the Delaware and Hudson Railway, is incorporated.Bridge Line Historical Society February 1, 2004 http://www.bridge-line.org/blhs/history.html D&H History July 12, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20040806051734/http://www.bridge-line.org/blhs/history.html August 6, 2004 dead July 20 – The Youngstown, Lawrence and Pittsburg Railroad and the Ashtabula, Niles and Youngstown Railroad, both in Ohio, are merged to form the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad (a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary). October events October 11 St. Louis Southwestern Railway predecessor Paragould and Buffalo Island Railway, in Arkansas, is incorporated.Beck, Wayne August 21, 1998 http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html The history of the Cotton Belt Railroad October 11, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20091018200123/http://geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html October 18, 2009 dead The New York and Northern Railway (a predecessor name for the New York and Putnam Railroad) emerges from reorganization after foreclosure the previous July. November events November 10 – Canada Atlantic Railway becomes the first Canadian railway to use steam from a train's locomotive to heat the passenger cars instead of coal or wood stoves in each car. November 13 – The Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, and Chicago and North Western Railway introduce the Overland Flyer passenger train between Chicago and San Francisco. Beebe Lucius Morris Lucius Beebe The Overland Limited https://archive.org/details/overlandlimited00beeb registration Howell-North Books 1963 756798 28 December events December 31 – Spokane International Railroad begins operations. Unknown date events Rebuilding of Gare Saint-Lazare terminus of the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest in Paris is completed. Rebuilding of New London Union Station of the Central Vermont Railway in New London, Connecticut, is completed to the design of Henry Hobson Richardson. Colorado Midland completes construction of the Hagerman Tunnel. Tapa–Tartu railway in Estonia is extended to Valga where it connects to the Riga–Pskov line.Ajalugu http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc Eesti Raudtee 23 April 2012 et https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095735/http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc September 23, 2017 dead mdy-all The first battery rail car is used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways.http://railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=MTk4MTRjNDUtNWQ0My00OTBmLTllYWUtZWFjM2U2OTE0ZDY3&rID=NzA=&pID=Nzkx&attchmnt=True&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MjUyOA==&rCFU= Battery Rail Vehicles Ben Johnston 2010 2021-05-19 November 7, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232713/http://railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=MTk4MTRjNDUtNWQ0My00OTBmLTllYWUtZWFjM2U2OTE0ZDY3&rID=NzA=&pID=Nzkx&attchmnt=True&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MjUyOA==&rCFU= dead Reuben Wells is appointed as shop superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. Stuyvesant Fish becomes president of the Illinois Central. Births March births March 9 – Nathaniel Lamson Howard, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1925–1929 (d. 1949). September births September 5 – Charles Fairburn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945 (d. 1945). Deaths April deaths April 19 – Alexander Mitchell, president of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 1864–1887 (b. 1817).Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress, MITCHELL, Alexander, (1817–1887). Retrieved January 4, 2006. April 20 – Horatio G. Brooks, founder of Brooks Locomotive Works (b. 1828).Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board http://www.southerntierwest.org/L5/hist_hbrooks.htm STW historical figures / Horatio Brooks February 9, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20040912233855/http://www.southerntierwest.org/L5/hist_hbrooks.htm September 12, 2004 dead July deaths July 4 – Anson P. Morrill, president of Maine Central Railroad 1864–1866 and 1873–1875 (b. 1803). August deaths August 14 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (b. 1827) References Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved November 8, 2005. (1902), Ohio Railway Report. Retrieved July 18, 2005.