1878 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1878.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 February events 1.3 May events 1.4 June events 1.5 July events 1.6 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 March births 2.2 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 3.1 March deaths 3.2 October deaths 3.3 Unknown date deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 18 - Construction on The Ghan route south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.

[edit] February events

• February 5 - The first train is operated on the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad from Renton to Newcastle.^[1]

[edit] May events

• May 9 - The final segment of the Romanian railway between Varciorova in the south and Roman in the north opens.

[edit] June events

• June 1 - The North British Railway's Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, is opened to public traffic, making it the longest in the world at that date.^[2]

[edit] July events

• July 2 - The Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway, original predecessor of the BMT Brighton Line, in modern Brooklyn, New York, opens to Brighton Beach on Coney Island.

[edit] Unknown date events

• Fred Harvey enters a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to build and operate the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that will serve the railroad's passengers.
• The first Shay locomotive is built.
• The Richmond and Danville Railroad acquires the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
• The Canadian Engine and Machinery Company is reorganized after a bankruptcy as the Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company.
• The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, lessee of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, declares bankruptcy.

[edit] Births

[edit] March births

• March 2 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1944).

[edit] Unknown date births

• Angus Daniel McDonald, president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1932–1941 (d. 1941).^[3][4]

[edit] Deaths

[edit] March deaths

• March 29 - Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1813).

[edit] October deaths

• October 19 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, designer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Thomas Viaduct (still in use today), dies (d. 1806).

[edit] Unknown date deaths

• Daniel McCallum, General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855-1858 (b. 1815).

[edit] References

1. ^ HistoryLink (2006), This week in state and local history. Retrieved February 5, 2006.
2. ^ Thomas, John (1969). The North British Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4697-0. 
3. ^ The McDonald bloodline. Retrieved on 2005-02-15.
4. ^ Yenne, Bill (1985). The history of the Southern Pacific. New York: Bonanza.