1872 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1872.

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

[edit] Events

[edit] March events

• March - John A. Dix succeeds Jay Gould as president of the Erie Railroad.
• March 5 - George Westinghouse receives a patent for the Westinghouse air brake.

[edit] May events

• May 1 - The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway, in England, opens.
• May 1 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad begins construction westward from Newton, Kansas, toward Colorado.
• May 18 - The Delaware and Raritan Canal, New Jersey Railroad and the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey, are merged into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company.
• May 28 - The Columbus and Toledo Railroad is incorporated.

[edit] June events

• June 17 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Hutchinson.

[edit] July events

• July - Peter H. Watson succeeds John A. Dix as president of the Erie Railroad.
• July 18 - The Coleford Railway is chartered to build a railroad between Wyesham and Coleford, England.

[edit] August events

• August 5 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Great Bend.
• August 12 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Larned.

[edit] September events

• September 5 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Dodge City, Kansas.
• September 13 - The first section of the planned railroad connection between Varciorova and Roman, Romania, opens, connecting Piteşti, Bucharest, Galaţi and Roman.

[edit] October events

• October 1
  • The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway is incorporated.
  • The first meeting of the Time Table Conventions, an organization that later became the American Railway Association, is held in Louisville, Kentucky.^[1]
• October 10 - Shimbashi Teishajō, the original terminus of Japan's first railway, opens.
• October 14 - Both Shinbashi (now Shiodome) and Yokohama (now Sakuragicho) stations in Japan open.

[edit] December events

• December 28 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches the border between Kansas and Colorado.

[edit] Unknown date events

• American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works purchases the fire engine manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works.
• At the age of 29, William Cornelius Van Horne becomes the youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad.
• Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Buffalo, New York.
• Strasburg, Colorado - joining of rail over river completes transcontinental railway.
• The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad leases North Carolina's Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

[edit] Births

[edit] September births

• September 20 - Death Valley Scotty (born Walter Edward Scott), con man who chartered the Scott Special record-breaking run on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1905.^[2]

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January deaths

• January 6 - Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1834).

[edit] April deaths

• April 9 - Erastus Corning, established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (b. 1794).

[edit] August deaths

• August - Asa Whitney, one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway

[edit] References

• Davis, J. J., Railway Magazine (February 1959), The Railways of Monmouth. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History - May. Retrieved May 27, 2005.
• Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

1. ^ James Truslow Adams (1940). Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 
2. ^ Signor, John R., compiler (first quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet 12 (1): p 17-29.  (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)