1859 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1859.
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Events
February events
- February 11 - The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is chartered in Kansas.
June events
- June 2 - the organization that is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad.
- June 7 - the Chicago and North Western Railway is chartered.
August events
- August - Samuel Marsh succeeds Charles Moran as president of the Erie Railroad.
Births
January births
- January 11 - Charles Bowen-Cooke, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1909–1920 (d. 1920).
April births
- April 11 - Stuart R. Knott, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1900-1905 (d. 1943).
Deaths
October deaths
- October 12 - Robert Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1803).
References
- Baker Library Historical Collections, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879-1896. Retrieved May 10 2005.
- The Cosmopolitan (February 1893), The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Retrieved May 10 2005.
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
- Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved August 15 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
