1854 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1854.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 February events 1.2 June events 1.3 July events 1.4 August events 1.5 October events 1.6 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 January births 2.2 February births 3 Deaths 3.1 February deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] February events

• February 15 - Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, opens for railroad traffic.

[edit] June events

• June - The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by steamboat.

[edit] July events

• July 3 - The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York, opens for passenger service.

[edit] August events

• August 20 - The first trains operate in what is now Romania between Oraviţa, Transylvania, and Baziaş, on the Danube.
• August 21 - The Great Western Railway of Canada opens its Galt Branch.

[edit] October events

• October 20 - Kingtson Locomotive Works, the predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, completes construction of its first steam locomotive.
• October 25 - The Carillon and Grenville Railway, in Canada, opens.

[edit] Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood purchases the steam locomotive manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works and folds it into Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Henry Farnam becomes president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

[edit] Births

[edit] January births

• January 6 - William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (d. 1932).

[edit] February births

• February 14 - Job A. Edson, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1905-1918 and 1920-1927 (d. 1928).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] February deaths

• February 19 - Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (b. 1810)

[edit] References

• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved October 25, 2005.
• Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved August 15, 2005.
• (April 3, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
• Virtual American Biographies - Henry Farnam. Retrieved March 1, 2005.