1880 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1880.
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Events
February events
- February 9 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March events
- March 20 - The first Southern Pacific Railroad train reaches Tucson, Arizona.
- March 20 - The Miami Valley Railway is sold from receivership to the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railway.
April events
- April 15 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Albuquerque, New Mexico.
June events
- June 8 - The Miami Valley Railway is reincorporated as the Cincinnati Northern Railway.
July events
- July 2 - The first revenue trains reach Leadville, Colorado, on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad.
- July 20 - Construction on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches Leadville, Colorado.
October events
- October 1 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches San Marcial, New Mexico.
Unknown date events
- Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, begins construction west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Eugene V. Debs becomes the Grand Secretary of American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
- The Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company is chartered as a holding company to acquire railroads that the Richmond and Danville Railroad itself couldn't.
- Alonzo C. Mather forms the Mather Stock Car Company to build stock cars of his own design.
- The Peninsular Car Company delivers the first refrigerator cars to Swift and Company, forming the basis of Swift Refrigerator Line.
Births
Deaths
January deaths
- January 1 - Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1796).
References
- Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Retrieved July 18 2005.
- Railroad History Timeline 1880. Retrieved March 23 2005.
- Reitwiesner, William Addams, The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne. Retrieved October 11 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
