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EVENTS

February events

February 15 - Pennsylvania Railroad 's Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania , opens for railroad traffic.

June events

June - The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by Railroad , then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by Steamboat .

July events

July 3 - The Brooklyn City Railroad , the oldest Streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York , opens for passenger service.

August events

August 20 - The first trains operate in what is now Romania between Oraviţa , Transylvania , and Baziaş , on the Danube .

August 21 - The Great Western Railway of Canada opens its Galt Branch.

October events

October 20 - Kingtson Locomotive Works , the predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company , completes construction of its first Steam Locomotive .

October 25 - The Carillon And Grenville Railway , in Canada , opens.

Unknown date events

Aretas Blood purchases the Steam Locomotive manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works and folds it into Manchester Locomotive Works .

Henry Farnam becomes president of the Chicago, Rock Island And Pacific Railroad .

BIRTHS

January births

January 6 - William N. Page , American Civil Engineer who built the Chesapeake And Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (d. 1932 ).

February births

February 14 - Job A. Edson , president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1905 - 1918 and 1920 - 1927 (d. 1928 ).

DEATHS

February deaths

February 19 - Whitmell P. Tunstall , first president of the Richmond And Danville Railroad (b. 1810 )

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

Kansas City Southern Historical Society, '' The Kansas City Southern Lines ''. Retrieved August 15 2005 .

( 2005 .

'' Virtual American Biographies - Henry Farnam ''. Retrieved March 1 2005 .