1892 in rail transport

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1891, 1892, 1893

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1892.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 March 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 December events 1.9 Unknown date events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 July deaths 3.2 September deaths 3.3 December deaths 3.4 Unknown date deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] March events

• March 1 - Japan's Mito Railway is consolidated into the Japanese National Railways.

[edit] April events

• April 17 - Canada Atlantic Railway leases the Central Counties Railway, which connected Glen Robertson and Hawkesbury, Ontario.^[1]

[edit] May events

• May 20 - The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London's Paddington station.

[edit] June events

• June 6 - The Chicago 'L' begins operations. The South Side Elevated Railroad opens for traffic between downtown Chicago and 39th Street (3.6 miles/5.8 km) using steam locomotives.
• June 7 - Homer Plessy is arrested when he refuses to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
• June 9 - Two trains collide at Esholt Junction in West Yorkshire, England, on what is now the Wharfedale Line. Five passengers are killed, twenty-six more and three crew are injured. The cause was unsafe procedures and a signal obscured by vegetation.

• June 17 - Brienz Rothorn Bahn, in Switzerland, opens.

[edit] July events

• July 18 - The Pine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor).

[edit] September events

• September 12 - Western Maryland Railroad's line from Hagerstown, Maryland, over the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia, opens.^[2]

[edit] November events

• November 27 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the California Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, with the first departure from Chicago.

[edit] December events

• December 1 - The first California Limited passenger train arrives in Chicago, Illinois, after a round trip to Los Angeles, California.
• December 30 - Canadian Pacific Railway opens the line between Payne and Eganville, Ontario; the first trains on the line are excursions from Renfrew.^[3]

[edit] Unknown date events

• Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive.
• The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership.
• Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil.
• Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
• The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, is founded.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] July deaths

• July 24 - Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (b. 1810).

[edit] September deaths

• September 7 - Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813).

[edit] December deaths

• December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836).

[edit] Unknown date deaths

• Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (b. 1810).

[edit] References

• Beck, Wayne (1957), The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 1877-1996. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
• (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 114. 
• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0. 
• A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9, 2005.

1. ^ Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (April 11, 2006). Retrieved on 16 April, 2006.
2. ^ Hicks, W. Raymond (April 1970). "The Cumberland Extension - Western Maryland Railroad Company". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (122): p 26. 
3. ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005) Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005.