1894 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1894.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 11 - 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company go on strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town, Pullman, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago, Illinois).
[edit] July events
- July 7 - The Wichita Falls Railway, a predecessor of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, is incorporated in Texas.[1]
- July 15 - Central Pacific Railroad scraps El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world.[2]
[edit] August events
- August 4 - The Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway in Colorado, which purchased the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership.
- August 7 - The West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William, Scotland.[3]
- August 27 - Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway opens the segment between Fort-Coulonge and Waltham, Quebec, a line segment that was completed in February 1888.[4]
[edit] November events
- November - Eben B. Thomas succeeds John King as president of the Erie Railroad.[5]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Southern Railway is formed from the combination of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
- Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, starts manufacturing Heisler locomotives.
- Oliver Robert Hawke Bury moves from the Chief mechanical engineer position at the Great Western Railway of Brazil to the same position at the Entre Rios Railway in Argentina.
- Construction of first oil-engined locomotive, an experimental unit designed by William Dent Priestman and built by his company, Priestman Brothers of Hull, England.[6]
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[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
- ^ Good, Mike (May 19, 1999). Corporate History: Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway. Retrieved on 2005-07-07.
- ^ Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5.
- ^ Thomas, John (1965). The West Highland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles.
- ^ Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (2006-07-30). Retrieved on 2006-08-25.
- ^ Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved on 2005-03-15.
- ^ Webb, Brian (1973). The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894-1940. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6115-5.
