1881 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1881.
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Events
February events
- February 3 - The Seney Syndicate met at Seney's New York bank and organized the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (which would later become the Nickel Plate Road).
- February 17 - The first train operates between Norwood, Ohio, and Lebanon, Ohio, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway.
March events
- March 8 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico.
April events
- April 13 - The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (later known as the Nickel Plate Road) purchases the Buffalo, Cleveland & Chicago Railway
May events
- May 19 - Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad reach El Paso, Texas.
- May 28 - Albert Bowman Rogers on his birthday discovers the pass through the Rocky Mountains that would bear his name, Rogers Pass.
June events
- June 9 - The Canada Central Railway is merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- June 11 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad connects to El Paso, Texas.
July events
- July 26 - Construction crews on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad's Alpine Tunnel, in Colorado, break through to connect both ends of the tunnel.
August events
- August 26 - The first train operates over the Red River Bridge into Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Unknown date events
- E.W. Clark and Company, a private banking firm in Philadelphia, purchases the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (a predecessor of the Norfolk & Western) at a foreclosure auction.
- The Richmond and Danville Railroad leases the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway.
- Henry Villard becomes president of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
- The French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique purchased controlling interest in the Panama Railway Company.
- John Souther retires from the steam locomotive manufacturing company that he founded, Globe Locomotive Works.
- Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway begins.
Births
July births
- July 8 - Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads (d. 1935).
October births
- October 30 - Charles E. Johnston, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928-1938 (d. 1951).
Unknown date births
- Martin W. Clement, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1935–1948 (d. 1966).
Deaths
Unknown date deaths
- William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1810).
References
- Churcher, Colin (May 21, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved June 4, 2005.
- Glenbow Museum (2005), This week in Canadian history. Retrieved May 27, 2005.
- Kansas City Southern Historical Society, The Kansas City Southern Lines. Retrieved August 15 2005.
- Newcomb, Kenneth W., The Makers of the Mold. Retrieved February 15 2005.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College (2004), 20th century great American business leaders - Martin W. Clement. Retrieved February 23 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, 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.
