1845 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 July events 1.2 August events 1.3 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown date deaths 4 References

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[edit] July events

• July - James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
• 21 July - A significant number of railway acts received Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom at the height of railway mania in the United Kingdom.

[edit] August events

• August - Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.

[edit] Unknown date events

• William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith & Company.
• Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.

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[edit] Unknown date deaths

• William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).

[edit] References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30, 2005.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.