1862 in rail transport

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Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1862.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 April events 1.3 May events 1.4 June events 1.5 July events 1.6 September events 1.7 November events 1.8 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown date deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 1 - Maj. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson marches his troops northward with the objective of disrupting traffic on the B&O Railroad and C&O Canal; the Battle of Hancock is unsuccessful and the Confederate Army withdraws.

[edit] April events

• April 12 - Andrew's Raiders steal The General and drive it north toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, with Western and Atlantic Railroad conductor William Fuller chasing it in the Great Locomotive Chase.

[edit] May events

• May 6 - the bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States House of Representatives.

[edit] June events

• June 20 - the bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States Senate.

[edit] July events

• July 1 - the Pacific Railroad Act is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
• July 1 - the Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.
• July 28 - The first railway post office car in North America was operated over the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad; the mail was transferred to stagecoach in St. Joseph, Missouri, for the rest of the journey to California.^[1]
• July 29 - the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company began streetcar operations on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

[edit] September events

• September 1 - James Staat Forbes became General Manager of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway

[edit] November events

• November 10 - Chicago and North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin.^[2]

[edit] Unknown date events

• Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the New York and Harlem Railroad.
• Eastern Counties Railway changed its name to Great Eastern Railway
• Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn opens Essen Hauptbahnhof station

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Unknown date deaths

• Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (b. 1822).
• Septimus Norris, steam locomotive designer often credited as designing the first 4-6-0 (b. 1818).

[edit] References

• Cooper, Bruce C., CPRR.org (2004), Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Retrieved July 28, 2005.

1. ^ (Fall 2006) "First as well as fast". Classic Trains 7 (3): p 27. ISSN 1527-0718. 
2. ^ Follmar, Joe, and August, Paul (Winter 2003). "The C&NW in the Fox River Valley". North Western Lines 30 (3): 26-49. ISSN 0279-5000.