1817 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1817.

Events

Births

July births

• July 1 - Hugh J. Jewett, president of the Erie Railroad 1874–1884 (d. 1898).
• July 15 - John Fowler, British civil engineer (d. 1898).

October births

• October 2 - Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company (d. 1883).
• October 17 - Alexander Mitchell, president of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 1864-1887 (d. 1887)^[1]

Unknown date births

• Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (d. 1877)
• Walter McQueen, Chief mechanical engineer for the Albany and Schenectady Railroad 1845–1850, Hudson River Railroad 1850–1852, and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852–1876 (d. 1893).

Deaths

References

• White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797. 
• 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. 

1. ^ Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress, MITCHELL, Alexander, (1817 - 1887). Retrieved January 4, 2006.