1892 in rail transport

none February 2012 1891 1892 1893 1890 Events January events January 28 – California Southern Railroad abandons the section of railroad through Temecula Canyon connecting to Fallbrook.http://www.sdrm.org/history/cs/perris.html Perris and its Railroad Dodge, Richard V. Dispatcher November 15, 1959 29 January 28, 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100707223351/http://www.sdrm.org/history/cs/perris.html July 7, 2010 Republished by the San Diego Railroad Museum (March 5, 2000). February events February 4 – Strahan–Zeehan Railway in Tasmania opens. March events March 1 – Japan's Mito Railway is consolidated into the Japanese National Railways. April events April 17 – Canada Atlantic Railway leases the Central Counties Railway, which connected Glen Robertson and Hawkesbury, Ontario.http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history Colin Churcher's Railway Pages April 11, 2006 April 16, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061656/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm April 27, 2006 dead April 25 – Mount Dundas – Zeehan Railway in Tasmania opens. May events May 20 – The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London Paddington station. Over the following two days 177 route miles (285 km) of its line are converted to standard gauge. June events June 6 – The Chicago 'L' begins operations. The South Side Elevated Railroad opens for service between Old Congress terminal in downtown Chicago and 39th Street (Pershing Road), a distance of 3.6 miles.The Chicago "L" Borzo Greg 2007 Arcadia Publishing Chicago Chapter Two: First "L"—South Side 23–34 978-0-7385-5100-5 Originally, this pioneering "High Line" used 46 small 0-4-4T Forney steam locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hauling 180 wooden trailers built by Jackson and Sharp Company of Wilmington, Delaware. June 7 – Homer Plessy is arrested when he refuses to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. June 9 – Two trains collide at Esholt Junction in West Yorkshire, England, on what is now the Wharfedale Line. Five passengers are killed, twenty-six more and three crew are injured. The cause is unsafe procedures and a signal obscured by vegetation. June 17 – Brienz Rothorn Bahn, in Switzerland, opens. July events July 2 – the Chemin de fer Glion-Rochers-de-Naye opens the first section of the Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway line in Switzerland.Wägli Jacobi 2010 21 July 18 – The Pine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor). July 25 – Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury opened in France. August events August 4 – Narrow gauge funicular Otis Elevating Railway opens to carry passengers from Catskill Mountain Railway trains connecting with Hudson River steamboats to the Catskill Mountain House destination resort and the Catskill and Tannersville Railway.Rip Van Winkle Railroads Helmer, William F. Howell-North Books 1970 67 0-8310-7079-X August 29 – The South Side Elevated Railroad in Chicago is extended south of 39th Street and reaches Garfield Boulevard in Washington Park. September events September – Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad opens from Mount Holly to Smithville, New Jersey. September 12 – Western Maryland Railroad's line from Hagerstown, Maryland, over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia, opens.Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin Hicks W. Raymond The Cumberland Extension – Western Maryland Railroad Company April 1970 122 122 26–35 43518329 September 26 – Jaffa–Jerusalem railway opened in the Ottoman Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. November events November 24 – First section of Philippine National Railways opens. November 27 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the California Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, with the first departure from Chicago. December events December 1 – The first California Limited passenger train arrives in Chicago, Illinois, after a round trip to Los Angeles. December 30 – Canadian Pacific Railway opens the line between Payne and Eganville, Ontario; the first trains on the line are excursions from Renfrew.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005) Significant dates in Ottawa railway history https://web.archive.org/web/20051004003151/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm October 4, 2005 . Retrieved December 27, 2005. Unknown date events Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive. Klien-Lindner axle patented. Construction of first petrol-engined locomotive, designed by Gottlieb Daimler and built in Esslingen, Germany.Matthew Richardson The Penguin Book of Firsts 2001 Penguin Books India New Delhi 0-14-302771-9 280 Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil.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 Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan. Muroran Main Line on Hokkaido begins life as a colliery railway. The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, is founded. The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership. Rebuilt stations opened Madrid Atocha railway station, Spain, designed by Alberto Palacio with Gustave Eiffel. Ramses Station, Cairo, Egypt. Births October births October 26 – André Chapelon, French steam locomotive designer (d. 1978).Marshall, John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2nd Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2003 0-901461-22-9 John Marshall (railway historian) Deaths July deaths July 24 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (b. 1810). September deaths September 7 – Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813). December deaths December 2 – Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836). December 28 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (b. 1810). Notes References Beck, Wayne (1957), The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 1877–1996 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20050714080912/http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html July 14, 2005 2009-10-19). Retrieved July 18, 2005. Waters, Lawrence Leslie 1950 Steel Trails to Santa Fe University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kansas 114 A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9, 2005.