1893 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1893.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 February events 1.3 March events 1.4 April events 1.5 May events 1.6 June events 1.7 July events 1.8 September events 1.9 December events 1.10 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 November births 3 Deaths 3.1 January deaths 3.2 June deaths 3.3 December deaths 3.4 Unknown date deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January - Under the direction of James J. Hill the third transcontinental railway in the United States is completed to the Pacific Northwest.
• January 2 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America. See Railroad chronometers

[edit] February events

• February 23 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

[edit] March events

• March 1 - The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (the New Haven Railroad) leases the Old Colony Railroad.
• March 2 - The US Railroad Safety Appliance Act is enacted, mandating that all cars in interchange service be equipped with air brakes, automatic couplers and grab irons.

[edit] April events

• April 22 - The John Bull arrives in Chicago, Illinois, for the World's Columbian Exposition after traveling under its own power from Jersey City, New Jersey.^[1]

[edit] May events

• May 10 - New York Central locomotive number 999 pulls a passenger train between Batavia and Buffalo, New York, reaching 112.5 mph (181 km/h); this is the first time an American train breaks 100 mph (161 km/h).

[edit] June events

• June 22 - Robert S. Lovett succeeds Leland Stanford as the president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, after Stanford's death. The Chairmanship position vacated by Stanford remains vacant for another 16 years.

[edit] July events

• July 1 - William Mackenzie purchases the Toronto and Mimico Creek Railway.^[2]
• July 10 - The Toronto and Mimico Creek Railway is extended to Mimico Creek.^[2]
• July 29 - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opens La Grande Station in Los Angeles, California.^[3]

[edit] September events

• September 18 - The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens between Ottawa and Arnprior.

[edit] December events

• December 6 - The John Bull leaves the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, under its own power, headed toward Washington, DC, for its return to the Smithsonian Institution.
• December 18 - The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens an extension of the railway from Arnprior to Eganville, Ontario.^[4]

• December 22 - The John Bull arrives back in Washington, DC, after traveling under its own power from Chicago, Illinois.
• December 23 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway enters receivership three days after the railroad's chairman died.

[edit] Unknown date events

• Eugene V. Debs organizes the first industrial union in the United States, the American Railway Union (ARU).
• Jacob S. Rogers, son of company founder Thomas Rogers, resigns from the presidency of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works; the company's former treasurer becomes president and reorganizes the company as Rogers Locomotive Company.

[edit] Births

[edit] November births

• November 5 - Raymond Loewy, industrial designer who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad designing the shape of equipment such as the GG1 (d. 1986).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January deaths

• January 27 - Alfred Belpaire, inventor of the Belpaire firebox for steam locomotives (b. 1820).

[edit] June deaths

• June 21 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1824)

[edit] December deaths

• December 20 - George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (b. 1840).

[edit] Unknown date deaths

• Allen Manvel, eleventh president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (b. 1837).
• Walter McQueen, Chief mechanical engineer for the Albany and Schenectady Railroad 1845–1850, Hudson River Railroad 1850–1852, and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852–1876 (b. 1817).

[edit] References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 18, 2005.
• Continental engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
• 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.

1. ^ Association of American Railroads (February 2005). Chronology of US Railroading (PDF). Retrieved on June 2, 2005.
2. ^ ^{a b} Radial Railway History. Retrieved on July 7, 2005.
3. ^ Brehm, Qathryn. Los Angeles Downtown Arts District: History. Retrieved on 2006-05-12.
4. ^ Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005). Retrieved on December 18, 2005.