1837 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1837.
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Events
August events
- August 24 - Queen Marie Amélie and King Louis-Philippe officially open the Paris-Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway line.
Unknown date events
- Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor receives the company's first order for new steam locomotives; the order for two locomotives is placed by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and is intended to be the beginning of the railroad's locomotive fleet.
Births
April births
- April 17 - J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (d. 1913).
May births
- May 23 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the mallet locomotive type (d. 1919).
September births
- September 26 - Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893.
Unknown date births
- William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (d. 1914)
Deaths
References
- Pearson Education (2005), William Barstow Strong. Retrieved June 2, 2005.
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- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
