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EVENTS

April events

April 25

--- Matthias W. Baldwin displays a model Steam Locomotive at the Philadelphia City Museum a year before building his first full-size locomotive for a working railroad.

--- The New York And Harlem Railroad is incorporated.

June events

2005 .

June 18 - The '' John Bull '' is constructed by Robert Stephenson And Company in England .

June 21 - The Boston And Providence Railroad is incorporated and chartered to build a railroad connection between Boston, Massachusetts , and Providence, Rhode Island .

June 23 - The Boston And Worcester Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in Massachusetts .

July events

July 14 - The '' John Bull '' departs Liverpool aboard the steamship ''Allegheny'' bound for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

September events

September 4 - The '' John Bull '' arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Liverpool .

September 15 - The '' John Bull '' is operated for the first time on the Camden And Amboy Railroad .

September 24 - The Mohawk And Hudson Railroad opens between Albany and Schenectady, New York .

November events

November 12 - Robert L. Stevens , president of the Camden And Amboy Railroad hosts a demonstration run of the '' John Bull '' for New Jersey politicians and dignitaries.

Unknown date events

The first railroad built in Virginia , the Chesterfield Railroad , begins operations.

The New York And Harlem Railroad is incorporated to build a passenger railroad between its namesake cities.

John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Mohawk And Hudson Railroad , a predecessor of the New York Central .

BIRTHS

March births

2005 .

March 3 - George Pullman , American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (d. 1897 )

August births

2005 .

Unknown date births

Eli H. Janney , inventor of the knuckle Coupler (d. 1912 ).

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Mitchell, Frank ( 2005 .