1888 in rail transport

none February 2012 1887 1888 1889 1880 Events February events February 2 - Frank J. Sprague built an electric light rail system in Richmond, VA, for the Richmond Union Passenger Railway. This was to be the first large-scale electric trolley (tram) line in the world.Post Robert C. 1987 America's Electric Railway Beginnings: Trollers and Daft Dummies in Los Angeles https://www.jstor.org/stable/41171270 Southern California Quarterly 69 3 203–221 10.2307/41171270 0038-3929 subscription February 24 – Grand Trunk Railway acquires the Northern and Northwestern Railway.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history https://web.archive.org/web/20060427113227/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm April 27, 2006 . Retrieved December 28, 2005. February 29 – Opening of Listowel and Ballybunion monorail in Ireland.Guerin Michael The Lartigue: Listowel and Ballybunion Railway 1988 Lartigue Centenary Committee Listowel 0-9513549-0-6 May events May – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway completes its Victoria Terminus station building in Bombay's Bori Bunder district. April events April 1 – The Old Colony Railroad leases the Boston and Providence Railroad for a period of 99 years. June events June 11 – The Canadian Pacific acquires control of the Soo Line, renaming it to the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. June 15 – The first train to Casper, Wyoming, operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway, arrives.Casper Star-Tribune June 22, 2005 http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt BP Amoco Timeline June 22, 2005 July events July–August – First "Race to the North": Operators of the West and East Coast Main Lines in Britain accelerate their services between London and Edinburgh. August events August 7 – Sir William Cornelius Van Horne succeeds George Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7754 Biography July 18, 2007Knowles, Valerie From Telegrapher to Titan : the life of William C. Van Horne 2004 Dundurn Toronto 1-55002-488-4 August 12 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary companies complete construction of the final link in what has come to be known as the Surf Line connecting Los Angeles and San Diego.Duke Donald Kistler Stan 1969 1963 Santa Fe...Steel Rails through California https://archive.org/details/santafesteelrail0000duke Golden West Books San Marino, California 0-87095-009-6 43 August 18 – In the City of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (at the time:German Reich), Frankfurt Central Station (today's name is Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof) is opened and is - at this time - the world's largest railway station in terms of tracks, ground area covered and passenger capacity. It replaces the three former regional stations, that were located closer to the old city limits, and were then demolished and gave way to a new city quarter named Station Quarter.Frankfurter Rundschau https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/jahre-hauptbahnhof-11285102.html 125 Jahre Hauptbahnhof fr.de April 11, 2023 September events September 10 – The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the first passenger train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in the United States west of Chicago, Illinois, on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities.http://www.mrha.com/history.cfm A Brief History of the Milwaukee Road Milwaukee Road Historical Association April 28, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060222075929/http://www.mrha.com/history.cfm February 22, 2006 dead mdy-all September 18 – The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway's Chaudière Extension departs for Chaudière Falls, Ontario (near Ottawa).Colin Churcher's Railway Pages September 7, 2005 http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history September 18, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20051004003151/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm October 4, 2005 dead November events November 10 – Opening of Saint-Chély–Neussargues line in France over Garabit viaduct.http://www.garabit-viaduc-eiffel.com/12-Le-chantier-en-quelques-dates.html Garabit en quelques dates Garabit, la plus belle réalisation de Gustave Eiffel October 3, 2011 https://archive.today/20130124003818/http://www.garabit-viaduc-eiffel.com/12-Le-chantier-en-quelques-dates.html January 24, 2013 dead mdy-all December events December 29 – First train crosses Poughkeepsie Bridge, New York.20001420 Poughkeepsie Bridge Unknown date events Spring – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway begins through service between Kansas City, Kansas, and Chicago, Illinois, over the railroad's newly completed line.Santa Fe Railroad 1945 Along Your Way Rand McNally Chicago, Illinois First section of metre gauge Brünig railway line in Switzerland opened by Jura–Bern–Lucerne Railway from Brienz over the Brünig Pass to Alpnachstad using the Riggenbach rack system. First articulated Mallet locomotive completed, by Tubize of Belgium.Durrant A. E. The Mallet Locomotive Newton Abbot David & Charles 1974 0-7153-5904-5 Accidents uncollapsed Deaths April deaths April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English steam locomotive designer who produced the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel (b. 1816).steamindex.com September 25, 2004 https://steamindex.com/people/crampton.htm Thomas Crampton February 9, 2005 June deaths June 14 – Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1822). References 30em