1877 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1877.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 July events 1.2 August events 1.3 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 Unknown date birhts 3 Deaths 3.1 January deaths 3.2 August deaths 3.3 Unknown date deaths 4 References

Events

July events

• July 16 - Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.
• July 19 - The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road) opens.
• July 20 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers riot in Baltimore, Maryland. Nine railroad employees are killed as the Maryland militia attempts to quell the riot.
• July 21 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.
• July 24 - Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. Patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car.

August events

• August 31 - The first 2 ft (609.6 mm) narrow gauge railroad in America, the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, begins operations.

Unknown date events

• Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles, California, cross the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona.
• William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is promoted to President of the New York Central system.

Births

Unknown date birhts

• Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company (d. 1951).

Deaths

January deaths

• January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).

August deaths

• August 3 - William Butler Ogden, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway (b. 1805).

Unknown date deaths

• Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (b. 1817).

References

• Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9 2005.
• (March 18 2000), A Chronology of Bedford's Railroad History. Retrieved August 31 2005.
• The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway. Retrieved July 18 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 12 and July 22 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.