1877 in rail transport

none February 2012 1876 1877 1878 1870 Events May events May 1 – Opening of first railway in Burma (Myanmar), from Rangoon (Yangon) to Prome (Pyay) (257 km mi on of metre gauge).October 2016 July events thumb|right|300px|Burning of Union Depot, Pittsburgh, July 21–22 during Great Railroad Strike July 14 – Baltimore railroad strike of 1877: Workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad walk off their jobs in an act that is seen as the start of the great railroad strike of 1877.http://avenue.org/nrhs/histjul.htm This Month in Railroad History – July Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society 2005 July 14, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060614173800/http://avenue.org/nrhs/histjul.htm June 14, 2006 live July 16 Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; West Virginia Governor Henry M. Mathews calls on United States President Rutherford B. Hayes for Federal troops to break the strike.Foner, Philip S. The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 https://archive.org/details/greatlaboruprisi0000fone registration 1977 Pathfinder Press 0-87348-828-8 Philip Foner The Nickey line, connecting Boxmoor to Harpenden in England, is officially opened.The Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead Railway – The Nickey Line 1996 Sue Woodward Geoff Woodward Oakwood Press 0-85361-502-0 31 July 19 – The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (later absorbed by the Long Island Rail Road) opens.http://www.lirrhistory.com/nymbry.html The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway July 18, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050717093133/http://www.lirrhistory.com/nymbry.html July 17, 2005 dead July 20 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers riot in Baltimore, Maryland. Nine railroad employees are killed as the Maryland militia attempts to quell the riot. July 21 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result. July 24 – Joel Tiffany is awarded 193357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car. August events August 31 – The first 2ft gauge narrow gauge railroad in America, the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, begins operations.March 18, 2000 http://www.bedforddepot.org/RRHistory.html A Chronology of Bedford's Railroad History August 31, 2005 November 6, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20051106010455/http://www.bedforddepot.org/RRHistory.html dead October events October 28 – Replacement Budapest-Nyugati Railway Terminal, constructed by Eiffel, opened in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. November events November 4 – Opening of Gustave Eiffel's Maria Pia Bridge carrying the railway across the Douro into Porto, Portugal. December events December 27 – The Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway opens, traversing a route from Montreal through Lachute to Hull.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm April 27, 2006 . Retrieved December 27, 2005. Unknown date events Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles, cross the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona. William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is promoted to President of the New York Central system. Second railway in Estonia connecting Tapa (on the Tallinn–Saint Petersburg line) with Tartu, the biggest city in Southern Estonia (at this time in the Governorate of Livonia) is opened.Ajalugu http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc Eesti Raudtee 2012-04-23 Estonian https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095735/http://www.evr.ee/?id=31736&PHPSESSID=236c033efe38d1ee57cf233f127330cc September 23, 2017 dead mdy-all Opening of first public railway in Venezuela, the Bolivar Railway (Ferrocarril Bolívar, 24in gauge).Baker Allan C. The Bolivar Railway and the Aroa Copper Mines Industrial Railway Society 2022 Approximate date – Ephraim Shay develops the first Shay locomotive. Births February births February 7 – Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds, England (d. 1951).https://steamindex.com/manlocos/hunslet.htm#alcock Hunslet group of locomotive companies steamindex.com 26 March 2021 Alcock, Edgar 4 April 2024 March births March 7 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (d. 1943).The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad Robert E. Mohowski 2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press 0-8018-7222-7 50731001 Deaths January deaths January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).https://steamindex.com/people/american.htm#vanderbilt American engineers steamindex.com 5 May 2020 Vanderbilt, Comelius 4 April 2024 March deaths March 9 – Oliver Ames Jr., president of Union Pacific Railroad 1866–1871, brother of Oakes Ames (b. 1807).Spencer Marks (2005), The Ames Family of North Easton, MA https://web.archive.org/web/20150930052654/http://www.spencermarks.com/html/ames_family.html September 30, 2015 . Retrieved December 29, 2005.Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific: Significant Individuals https://web.archive.org/web/20120915040706/http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/sig-indv.shtml September 15, 2012. Retrieved December 29, 2005. April deaths April 22 – James P. Kirkwood, designer of Starrucca Viaduct (b. 1807). May deaths May 19 – Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (b. 1817).https://steamindex.com/people/american.htm#baird American engineers steamindex.com 5 May 2020 Baird, Matthew 4 April 2024 August deaths August 3 – William Butler Ogden, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway (b. 1805). September deaths September 2 – Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Express, one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States, dies (b. 1804). December events December 26 – Jean-Jacques Meyer, French-born steam locomotive designer (b. 1804) References Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 12 and July 22, 2005.