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EVENTS

May events

May 5 - The Boston, Revere Beach And Lynn Railroad is chartered in Massachusetts .

May 18 - Construction begins on the Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad .

June events

June 20 - The Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad , building from Denver , reaches Morrison, Colorado .

July events

July - Hugh J. Jewett succeeds Peter H. Watson as president of the Erie Railroad .

July 3 - The first revenue trains on the Denver, South Park And Pacific Railroad operate between Denver and Morrison, Colorado .

September events

September 10 - Norwich ( Norfolk ), United Kingdom : 25 people were killed when a communication error caused a mail train and an express passenger train to meet in a head-on collision on a single-line section. The accident led directly to the introduction of automatic control systems to manage traffic on single-track railways.

September 14 - A franchise for the extension of the Spring And Sixth Street Railroad to the Southern Pacific Railroad 's Old River Station , in Los Angeles, California , is approved.

September 23 - East Broad Top Narrow Gauge railroad in Pennsylvania operates its first revenue trains.

November events

November 7 - The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway Company , the predecessor of the Miami Valley Railway , is incorporated.

November 8 - Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad reach Bakersfield, California ; work begins on the route that would eventually become the Tehachapi Loop .

Unknown date events

The Milwaukee And Mississippi Railroad , an early predecessor of the Milwaukee Road , changes its official name to Chicago, Milwaukee, And St. Paul

Dr. Livingston Stone of the US Fish Commission (which later became the United States Fish And Wildlife Service ) "chaperoned" a shipment of 35,000 Shad fry to stock the Sacramento River in California in the first such delivery by rail aboard a Fish Car .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

May deaths

May 27 - John Edgar Thomson , president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852 – 1874 (b. 1808 ).

June deaths

June 20 - John Ruggles , who was awarded for improved Driving Wheel s (b. 1789 ).

Unknown date deaths

Joseph Harrison, Jr. , partner in the American Steam Locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick And Harrison (b. 1810 ).

REFERENCES

Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California, '' The street railway history of Los Angeles ''. Retrieved September 13 2005 .

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

Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society ( 2005 .

U.S. Government Printing Office ( 2005 .

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