1824 in rail transport

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1823, 1824, 1825

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1824.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 March births 2.2 October births 2.3 November births 2.4 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] March births

• March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California

[edit] October births

• October 2 - Henry C. Lord, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869.

[edit] November births

• November 14 - James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).

[edit] Unknown date births

• John Cooke, founder of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Cooke Locomotive Works (d. 1882).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. Dover Publications, New York, NY. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.