1875 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1875.
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Events
February events
- February 9 - The first train passes through the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts.
August events
- August 30 - Groundbreaking ceremonies are held in Pembroke, Ontario, for the Canada Central Railway line between Pembroke and Renfrew.
September events
- September 13 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Las Animas, Colorado.
Unknown date events
- The American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is founded.
- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad purchases the line between Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas.
Births
May births
- May 9 - H.P.M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922 (d. 1948).
Deaths
January deaths
- January 18 - William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway (b. 1807).
References
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 23 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 30 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- William Henry Aspinwall. Retrieved February 9 2005.
