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EVENTS

July events

July 16 - Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia , derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.

July 19 - The New York And Manhattan Beach Railway (a predecessor of the Long Island Rail Road ) opens.

July 20 - Baltimore And Ohio Railroad workers riot in Baltimore, Maryland . Nine railroad employees are killed as the Maryland Militia attempts to quell the riot.

July 21 - Baltimore And Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.

July 24 - Joel Tiffany is awarded for his design of the first successful Refrigerator Car .

August events

August 31 - The first 2 Ft (609.6 Mm ) Narrow Gauge railroad in America , the Billerica And Bedford Railroad , begins operations.

December events

2005 .

Unknown date events

Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles, California , cross the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona .

William Henry Vanderbilt , son of Cornelius Vanderbilt , is promoted to President of the New York Central system.

BIRTHS

Unknown date births

Edgar Alcock , general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company (d. 1951 ).

DEATHS

January deaths

January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt , American Financier who created the New York Central And Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794 ).

August deaths

August 3 - William Butler Ogden , president of the Chicago And North Western Railway (b. 1805 ).

September deaths

September 2 - Alvin Adams , founder of Adams Express , one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States , dies (b. 1804 ).

Unknown date deaths

2005 .

Matthew Baird , second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (b. 1817 ).

REFERENCES

'' Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers ''. Retrieved February 9 2005 .

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'' The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway ''. Retrieved July 18 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society ( and July 22 2005 .