1865 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1865.
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Events
February events
- February 9 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad, predecessor to the Colorado Central Railroad, is chartered.
- February 15 - The Chicago and North Western Railway and Galena and Chicago Union Railroad merge.
April events
- April - The funeral train for Abraham Lincoln travels from Washington, DC to Illinois.
May events
- May 25 - The first steel rails are rolled at a foundry in Chicago from Bessemer steel made in blast furnaces in Wyandotte, Michigan.
June events
- June 9 - Rail accident at Staplehurst, United Kingdom: 10 killed, 49 injured; Charles Dickens is amongst the survivors.
August events
- August 7 - The Lawrence Railroad and Transportation Company, with tracks in Pennsylvania and Ohio, is reorganized as the Lawrence Railroad Company.
September events
- September 1 - The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
- September 13 - Algernon S. Buford becomes president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
- September 14 - The Brockville and Ottawa Railway begins operations between Arnprior and Sand Point, Ontario, a distance of about 6 miles (10 km).
Unknown date events
- The Union Pacific Railway, later to become the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and not to be confused with the Union Pacific Railroad, begins operations.
- A group of businessmen in San Francisco, California, led by Timothy Guy Phelps, found the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California.
- Erastus Corning resigns from his executive post for the New York Central.
- The Canadian Engine and Machinery Company, predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, is founded from the assets of the bankrupt Kingston Locomotive Works.
- Missouri Car and Foundry Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in St. Louis, Missouri.
Births
October births
- October 9 - George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904–1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1945).
Unknown date births
- Frederick Methvan Whyte, mechanical engineer for the New York Central railroad, creator of Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives (d. 1941).
Deaths
Unknown date deaths
- William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (b. 1786).
References
- Barnett, Leroy "Making America's First Steel in Wyandotte", Michigan History, Vol. 88 No. 4 July/August 2004
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved September 13 2005.
- Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved August 7 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.
