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EVENTS

January events

January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado And Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado .

January 3 - The Kalamazoo And Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan .

January 14 - The Colorado And Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad .

February events

February 12 - The Columbus And Indiana Central Railway and Chicago And Great Eastern Railway merge to form the Columbus, Chicago And Indiana Central Railway .

April events

April 3 - The Flushing And North Side Rail Road is incorporated in New York .¹

May events

May - The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado , and Cheyenne, Wyoming .

July events

July - Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad .

August events

explodes. 33 dead, engine driver badly burned.

September events

September 2 - William F. Nast succeeds Samuel C. Pomeroy as president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

September 10 - Romania 's Gara De Nord station in Bucharest opens.

September 24 - Henry C. Lord succeeds William F. Nast as president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

September 25 - The Big Four purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad .

October events

October 30 - Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas , on the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad .

Unknown date events

Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad

BIRTHS

May births

May 26 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell , Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Southern Railway 1923 – 1937 (d. 1944 ).

DEATHS

REFERENCES

'' Erie Railroad presidents ''. Retrieved March 15 2005 .

Gibson, Elizabeth ( 2005 .

'' History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company ''. Retrieved August 6 2005 .

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