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EVENTS

March events

March - John A. Dix succeeds Jay Gould as president of the Erie Railroad .

March 5 - George Westinghouse receives a patent for the Westinghouse Air Brake .

May events

May 1 - The Buckfastleigh, Totnes And South Devon Railway , in England , opens.

May 1 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad begins construction westward from Newton, Kansas , toward Colorado .

May 18 - The Delaware And Raritan Canal , New Jersey Railroad and the Camden And Amboy Railroad , the first railroad built in New Jersey , are merged into the United New Jersey Railroad And Canal Company .

May 28 - The Columbus And Toledo Railroad is incorporated.

June events

June 17 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Newton, Kansas , reaches Hutchinson .

July events

July - Peter H. Watson succeeds John A. Dix as president of the Erie Railroad .

July 18 - The Coleford Railway is chartered to build a railroad between Wyesham and Coleford , England .

August events

August 5 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Newton, Kansas , reaches Great Bend .

August 12 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Newton, Kansas , reaches Larned .

September events

September 5 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Newton, Kansas , reaches Dodge City, Kansas .

September 13 - The first section of the planned railroad connection between Varciorova and Roman, Romania , opens, connecting Piteşti , Bucharest , Galaţi and Roman.

October events

October 1 - The Denver, South Park And Pacific Railway is incorporated.

October 14 - Both Shinbashi (now Shiodome) and Yokohama (now Sakuragicho) stations in Japan open.

December events

December 28 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Newton, Kansas , reaches the border between Kansas and Colorado .

Unknown date events

American Steam Locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works purchases the Fire Engine manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works .

At the age of 29, William Cornelius Van Horne becomes the youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad .

Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company , later to become part of American Car And Foundry , is founded in Buffalo, New York .

Strasburg, Colorado - joining of rail over river completes transcontinental railway.

The Wilmington, Columbia And Augusta Railroad leases North Carolina 's Wilmington And Weldon Railroad .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January deaths

January 6 - Jim Fisk , American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1834 ).

April deaths

April 9 - Erastus Corning , established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (b. 1794 ).

August deaths

August - Asa Whitney , one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway

REFERENCES

Davis, J. J., ''Railway Magazine'' (February 2005 .

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

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (, 2005 .

Santa Fe Railroad ( 1945 ), ''Along Your Way'', Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.