1894 in rail transport

none February 2012 1893 1894 1895 1890 Events January events January 1 – Bangor and Aroostook Railroad begins rail service connecting Aroostook County, Maine to the United States rail network.Angier, Jerry Cleaves, Herb Bangor and Aroostook, The Maine Railroad Flying Yankee Enterprises 1986 19 0-9615574-2-7 April events April 29 – The Lake Street Elevated Railroad in Chicago is extended west from California & Lake to Laramie (52nd) Avenue. May events May 11 – 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company go on strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town, Pullman, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago). July events July 7 – The Wichita Falls Railway, a predecessor of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, is incorporated in Texas.Good, Mike May 19, 1999 http://tacnet.missouri.org/~mgood/clintonrr/ch_mkt.html Corporate History: Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway July 7, 2005 https://archive.today/19991115144040/http://tacnet.missouri.org/~mgood/clintonrr/ch_mkt.html November 15, 1999 dead mdy-all July 15 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world.Diebert, Timothy S. Strapac, Joseph A. Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium Shade Tree Books 1987 0-930742-12-5 August events August 4 – The Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway in Colorado, which purchased the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership. August 7 – The West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William, Scotland.Thomas, John The West Highland Railway 1965 David & Charles Dawlish August 27 – Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway opens the segment between Fort-Coulonge and Waltham, Quebec, a line segment that was completed in February 1888.Significant dates in Ottawa railway history http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Colin Churcher's Railway Pages July 30, 2006 August 25, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060828225559/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm August 28, 2006 dead October events October – Mur Valley Railway opens in Austria with the first class U 0-6-2T. November events November – Eben B. Thomas succeeds John King 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 March 18, 2005 dead November 7 – The Southern Pacific Railroad inaugurates the Sunset Express passenger train between New Orleans and San Francisco.Famous trains of North America Railway World 5 January 1906 50 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=vs81AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 15–21 Railway World 1906 December events December 22 – The Chelford rail accident in England kills 14. Unknown date events The Southern Railway is formed from the combination of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad. Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, starts manufacturing Heisler locomotives. Oliver Robert Hawke Bury moves from the Chief mechanical engineer position at the Great Western Railway of Brazil to the same position at the Entre Ríos Railway in Argentina.https://steamindex.com/people/managers.htm#bury Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior railway officers steamindex.com 11 January 2023 4 May 2024 Bury, Oliver Robert Hawke Construction of first oil-engined locomotive, an experimental unit designed by William Dent Priestman and built by his company, Priestman Brothers of Hull, England.Webb, Brian The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894–1940 1973 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-6115-5 Deaths March 2 – William H. Osborn, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1855–1865, president of Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad 1875–1882, dies (b. 1820). September 1 – Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859 (b. 1818). References