1868 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1868.
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Events
January events
- January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
- January 3 - The Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan.
- January 14 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad.
May events
- May - The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
July events
- July - Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad.
August events
- August 20 - Abergele train disaster, Wales; the first major railway disaster in Britain: passenger train collides with runaway goods wagons and their load of paraffin explodes. 33 dead, engine driver badly burned.
September events
- September 2 - William F. Nast succeeds Samuel C. Pomeroy as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- September 10 - Romania's Gara de Nord station in Bucharest opens.
- September 24 - H. C. Lord succeeds William F. Nast as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- September 25 - The Big Four purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.
October events
- October 30 - Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
Unknown date events
- Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Births
May births
- May 26 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944).
Deaths
References
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
- Gibson, Elizabeth (July 16 2002), The Old West - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (Part 1). Retrieved May 13 2005.
- History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 6 2005.
- (February 26 1999), Railway engineers - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell. Retrieved February 10 2005.
- (November 2 2004), Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell. Retrieved February 10 2005.
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