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none 1863 1864 1865 1860 Events January events The Central Pacific Railroad hires its first Chinese workers. One of them, Hung Wah, will go on to command the largest and longest-working work crew on the CPRR.Chew, Wm. F. http://cprr.org/Museum/Chew_Chap4.pdf Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental Railroad , pp. 37 ff. 2004. January 10 – The Illinois Central, Columbus and Indianapolis and Richmond and Covington railroads sign an agreement for joint operation as the Great Central Line between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, headed by the Indiana Central Railway. January 13 – Samuel C. Pomeroy succeeds Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. January 16 – The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad is completed to San Jose, California.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18640117.2.7 Grand Celebration of the Opening of the San Jose Railroad 17 January 1864 Daily Alta California 19 April 2017 16 5070 June events The first railway track in Indonesia was laid between Semarang and Tanggung, Central Java by the Dutch colonial government. Hamdani Sylviana Taking a Train Trip Down Memory Lane in Indonesia http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/taking-a-train-trip-down-memory-lane-in-indonesia/356515 Jakarta Globe 3 February 2010 3 February 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101007225648/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/taking-a-train-trip-down-memory-lane-in-indonesia/356515 7 October 2010 dmy-all June 3 – The first revenue trains operate over the Central Pacific Railroad between Sacramento, California and Newcastle, California. June 29 – St-Hilaire train disaster, Beloeil, Quebec, Canada: 99 killed when an immigrant train fails to stop at an open swing bridge and falls into the Richelieu River. July events July – Samuel Marsh succeeds Nathaniel Marsh for a second term as president of the Erie Railroad.http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents March 15, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html 18 March 2005 dead July 2 – The Northern Pacific Railway is chartered to build a northern transcontinental railroad in the United States. July 9 – Franz Muller kills Thomas Briggs in a North London Railway train, the first British railway murder.Irving H. B. Goodman Jonathan The Railway Murders 1986 Sphere London 0-7221-3871-7 13–35 The first railway murder August events August 24 - The United States Postal Service inaugurates the first railway post office route in the United States when Chicago Assistant Postmaster George B. Armstrong authorizes the route on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa.http://www.usps.com/history/his2.htm United States Postal Service History of the United States Postal Service 1775–1993: The Postal Role in U.S. Development August 28, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050815075554/http://www.usps.com/history/his2.htm August 15, 2005 dead thumb|Alameda Shore (Joseph Lee, 1868) depicts a ferry meeting the first run of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad on August 25, 1864. August 25 - The San Francisco and Alameda Railroad begins operation between Alameda Terminal and San Leandro, California.Failed Railroad led to Thriving Ferry Service Alameda Museum Quarterly https://alamedamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AMQ_2015_Fall.pdf 1–3 Dennis Evanosky 4 Fall 2015 Alameda Museum October events October – Robert H. Berdell succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad. Unknown date events Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the Hudson River Railroad. Murray, Dougal and Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Milton, Pennsylvania. Births February births February 6 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (d. 1923). June births June 8 – Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type (d. 1913).April 27, 2004 https://steamindex.com/people/garratt.htm Herbert William Garratt February 9, 2005 July births July 15 – Franklin Knight Lane, Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner 1905–1913, chairman of same in 1913, is born (d. 1921). October births October 23 – Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill, chairman of the Great Western Railway (Great Britain) 1908–1934 (d. 1934). Deaths Unknown date deaths Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1784). References Waters Lawrence Leslie 1950 Steel Trails to Santa Fe University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kansas White John H History of the American locomotive