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EVENTS

January events

January 21 - The New York, Boston And Montreal Railway is organized as a renaming of the New York, Boston And Northern Railway .

April events

April 1 - Eli H. Janney files for a patent on "Improvement in Car-Couplings".

April 29 - Eli H. Janney is awarded for his knuckle Coupler design.

May events

May 10 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from Kansas , reaches Granada, Colorado .

May 22 - Henry Strong succeeds Ginery Twichell as president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

June events

June - The Southern Pacific Railroad builds its first Steam Locomotive at the railroad's Sacramento, California , shops as CP's 2nd number 55, a 4-4-0 .

June 2 - Construction begins on Clay Street in San Francisco, California , for the first Cable Railway in the world, the Clay Street Hill Railroad (later to become part of the San Francisco Cable Car System ).

June 14 - The Denver, South Park And Pacific Railway is reorganized with greater capital as the Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad .

August events

August 2 - The first prototypes of the San Francisco Cable Car System are tested at the top of Nob Hill by Andrew Hallidie .

August 4 - The Ross And Monmouth Railway 's line from Monmouth , Wales , to Ross On Wye , England , opens.

September events

September 20 - In order to contain the Panic Of 1873 , brought on by the failure of Jay Cooke and Company in financing the Northern Pacific Railway , the New York Stock Exchange halts all trading and closes for ten days.

September 22 - Western Counties Railway holds official Groundbreaking ceremonies at Lovitt's Wharf , Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia , Canada .

October events

October 3 - Grand Trunk Railway begins converting its track between Stratford, Ontario , and Montreal from 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) ( Broad Gauge ) to ( Standard Gauge ); the conversion is completed within 24 hours.

December events

December 23 - The first section of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad is opened between Topeka, Kansas , and the Colorado / Kansas border.

Unknown date events

Under the direction of Cornelius Vanderbilt , the New York Central And Hudson River Railroad tracks reach Chicago, Illinois .

St. Charles Car Company , later to become part of American Car And Foundry , is founded in St. Charles, Missouri .

Matthew Baird retires from his management and ownership position at Baldwin Locomotive Works .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Baker Library Historical Collections, '' Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879-1896 ''. Retrieved May 10 2005 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

CPRR.org ( 2005 .

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

Rising Sun Publications ( 2005 .

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

Smith, Ivan; Railways of Canada Archives ( 2005 .

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