1845 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845.
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Events
July events
- July - James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
August events
- August - Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.
Unknown date events
- William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith & Company.
- Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.
Births
Deaths
Unknown date deaths
- William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).
References
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30 2005.
- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. Dover Publications, New York, NY. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
