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none 1871 1872 1873 1870 Events March events March – John Adams Dix succeeds Jay Gould as president of the Erie Railroad. March 1 – Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company, is incorporated in Pennsylvania.http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/jacksonwoodin.htm Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company Mid-Continent Railway Museum 2006-04-11 2008-04-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20080511170122/http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/jacksonwoodin.htm 11 May 2008 live March 5 – George Westinghouse receives a patent for the Westinghouse air brake. March 11 – The 3/4 mi km long Bristol Harbour Railway opens from the junction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway and Great Western Railway at Temple Meads to the Floating Harbour in Bristol. April events April 1 – The Midland Railway (Great Britain) admits Third class passengers to all trains, a move which other British railway companies follow.Lee, Charles E. Passenger Class Distinctions 1946 Railway Gazette London April 6 – Wallkill Valley Railroad opens Rosendale Trestle, at this time the highest bridge in the United States, to rail traffic in Rosendale, New York. May events May 1 – The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway, in England, opens. May 1 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad begins construction westward from Newton, Kansas, toward Colorado. May 18 – The Delaware and Raritan Canal, New Jersey Railroad and the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey, are merged into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company. May 28 – The Columbus and Toledo Railroad is incorporated. June events June 12 – First section of railway in Japan opens, from Yokohama to Shinagawa, Tokyo.October 2016 June 17 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Hutchinson. July events July – Peter H. Watson succeeds John A. Dix as president of the Erie Railroad. July 1 – Schenker, predecessor of global freight forwarder DB Schenker, is founded in Vienna.May 2020 July 2 – Baltimore and Potomac Railroad opens its line from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., via Huntington.https://apps.mht.maryland.gov/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-1211.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bowie Railroad Buildings February 1990 2015-08-01 Susan Pearl Maryland Historical Trust August events August 5 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Great Bend. August 12 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Larned. September events September 5 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Dodge City, Kansas. September 13 – The first section of the planned railroad connection between Vârciorova and Roman, Romania, opens, connecting Piteşti, Bucharest, Galaţi and Roman. October events October 1 The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway is incorporated. The first meeting of the Time Table Conventions, an organization that later became the American Railway Association, is held in Louisville, Kentucky.Dictionary of American History James Truslow Adams James Truslow Adams New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1940 October 2 – The Kirtlebridge rail crash in Scotland kills 10 people. October 10 First passenger service on the Transcaucasian Railway (later Georgian Railway) in the Russian Empire, between the capital, Tbilisi, and the Black Sea port of Poti.Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Гл. ред. Б. А. Введенский, 2-е изд. Т. 16. Железо — Земли. 1952. 672 стр., илл.; 51 л. илл. и карт. ru Shimbashi Teishajō, the original Tokyo terminus of Japan's first railway, opens. October 14 (September 12 in Tenpō calendar) – Official inauguration of first Japanese railway between Shimbashi, Tokyo (modern-day Shiodome) and Yokohama (modern-day Sakuragichō) (provisionally in June) November events November 1 – Ensign Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry Company, is incorporated in West Virginia.http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/ensign.htm Ensign Manufacturing Company Mid-Continent Railway Museum 2006-04-09 2008-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20080511160628/http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/ensign.htm 11 May 2008 live December events December 28 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches the border between Kansas and Colorado. Unknown date events Strasburg, Colorado – joining of rail over river completes transcontinental railway. American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works purchases the fire engine manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works. At the age of 29, William Cornelius Van Horne becomes the youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad. Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Buffalo, New York.http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/buffalo_carco.htm Buffalo Car Company Mid-Continent Railway Museum 2006-04-09 2008-04-13 The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad leases North Carolina's Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Births September births September 20 – Death Valley Scotty (born Walter Edward Scott), con man who chartered the Scott Special record-breaking run on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1905.The Warbonnet Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special Signor, John R. JanMar 2006 17–29 12 1 (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society) Deaths January deaths January 6 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1834). February deaths 8 February – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (b. 1799).http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REpease.htm Joseph Pease 6 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817235409/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REpease.htm 2007-08-17 usurped April deaths April 9 – Erastus Corning, established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (b. 1794). August deaths August – Asa Whitney, one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway References Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History – May. Retrieved May 27, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.