1868 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1868.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 February events 1.3 April events 1.4 May events 1.5 July events 1.6 August events 1.7 September events 1.8 October events 1.9 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 May births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
• January 3 - The Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan.
• January 14 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad.

[edit] February events

• February 12 - The Columbus and Indiana Central Railway and Chicago and Great Eastern Railway merge to form the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway.
• February 17 - Manningham station opens on the Midland Railway north of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

[edit] April events

• April 3 - The Flushing and North Side Rail Road is incorporated in New York.^[1]

[edit] May events

• May - The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

[edit] July events

• July - Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad.

[edit] August events

• August 20 - Abergele train disaster, Wales; the first major railway disaster in Britain: passenger train collides with runaway goods wagons and their load of paraffin explodes. 33 dead, engine driver badly burned.

[edit] September events

• September 2 - William F. Nast succeeds Samuel C. Pomeroy as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
• September 10 - Romania's Gara de Nord station in Bucharest opens.
• September 24 - Henry C. Lord succeeds William F. Nast as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
• September 25 - The Big Four purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.

[edit] October events

• October 26 - The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad opens between Midland and Averill, Michigan.^[2]
• October 30 - Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

[edit] Unknown date events

• Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad

[edit] Births

[edit] May births

• May 26 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
• (February 26, 1999), Railway engineers - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
• (November 2, 2004), Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. 

1. ^ Huneke, John (2006). aRRt's aRRchives. Retrieved on 3 April, 2006.
2. ^ Michigan Railroad History Timeline: 1860s. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.