1892 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1892.
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[edit] Events
[edit] March events
- March 1 - Japan's Mito Railway is consolidated into the Japanese National Railways.
[edit] April events
- April 17 - Canada Atlantic Railway leases the Central Counties Railway, which connected Glen Robertson and Hawkesbury, Ontario.[1]
[edit] May events
- May 20 - The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London's Paddington station.
[edit] June events
- June 6 - Chicago’s "El" opens to traffic.
- June 7 - Homer Plessy is arrested when he refuses to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
- June 17 - Brienz Rothorn Bahn, in Switzerland, opens.
[edit] July events
- July 18 - The Pine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor).
[edit] September events
- September 12 - Western Maryland Railroad's line from Hagerstown, Maryland, over the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia, opens.[2]
[edit] November events
- November 27 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the California Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, with the first departure from Chicago.
[edit] December events
- December 1 - The first California Limited passenger train arrives in Chicago, Illinois, after a round trip to Los Angeles, California.
- December 30 - Canadian Pacific Railway opens the line between Payne and Eganville, Ontario; the first trains on the line are excursions from Renfrew.[3]
[edit] Unknown date events
- Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive.
- The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership.
- Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil.
- Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, is founded.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] July deaths
- July 24 - Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (b. 1810).
[edit] September deaths
- September 7 - Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813).
[edit] December deaths
- December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836).
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (b. 1810).
[edit] References
- Beck, Wayne (1957), The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 1877-1996. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
- (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005.
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 114.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
- A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9, 2005.
- ^ Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (April 11, 2006). Retrieved on April 16, 2006.
- ^ Hicks, W. Raymond (April 1970). "The Cumberland Extension - Western Maryland Railroad Company". Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (122): p 26.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005) Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005.
