1857 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1857.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 June events 1.3 October events 1.4 December events 1.5 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 November births 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown date deatha 4 References

Events

January events

• January 13 - Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381 for a railroad scale.

June events

• June 4 - The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.

October events

• October - Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad.

December events

• December 15 - George S. Griggs is awarded U.S. Patent 18,883 for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird.

Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad
• The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars.
• Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad.

Births

November births

• November 17 - William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 (d. 1940).

Deaths

Unknown date deatha

• Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794).

References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
• New York Times (October 30 1940), W. B. Storey Dies. Retrieved August 19 2005.
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• 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.