1852 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1852.
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[edit] Events
[edit] October events
- October 10 - the first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
[edit] November events
- November 20 - The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway line between Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, opens.
[edit] Unknown date events
- John Cooke steps down from the superintendent position at Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works to partner with Charles Danforth in forming the new locomotive manufacturing company, Danforth, Cooke and Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
- The first 2-6-0 steam locomotives are built.
- John Edgar Thomson becomes president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
[edit] Births
[edit] August events
- August 16 – Charles Sanger Mellen, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1897-1903 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1903, is born (d. 1927).[1]
[edit] Unknown date births
- J. Elfreth Watkins, railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ "Obituary: Charles Sanger Mellen", New York Times, November 18, 1927, p. 23.
