1870 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1870.
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Events
February events
- February 24 - Delaware and Hudson Canal Company leases the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, which extended from Albany to Binghamton, New York.
March events
- March - Construction on the Kansas Pacific reaches Kit Carson, Colorado.
June events
- June - The Denver Pacific Railway completes construction of its mainline between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
July events
- July 24 - The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.
August events
- August - Construction crews on the Kansas Pacific working eastward from Denver and westward from Kansas City meet at Strasburg, Colorado.
- August - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Topeka, reaches Emporia, Kansas.
- August 2 - The Texas legislature approves the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT) charter, which was originally granted by Kansas, allowing the MKT to build into the state.
- August 15 - Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Denver, Colorado.
September events
- September 24 - Ginery Twichell succeeds Henry Keyes as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Unknown date events
- The Southern Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad operations are merged under the Southern Pacific name.
Births
July births
- July 29 - Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1938).
Deaths
Unknown date deaths
- George S. Griggs, pioneering master mechanic of American steam locomotives (b. 1805).
References
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: August. Retrieved August 15 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 22 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- Scripophily.com, Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company 1886. Retrieved August 2 2005.
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