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EVENTS

January events

January - Under the direction of James J. Hill the third Transcontinental Railway in the United States is completed to the Pacific Northwest .

January 2 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America . See Railroad Chronometers

February events

February 23 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the Diesel Engine .

March events

March 1 - The New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad (the New Haven Railroad ) leases the Old Colony Railroad .

March 2 - The US Railroad Safety Appliance Act is enacted, mandating that all cars in interchange service be equipped with air brakes, automatic couplers and grab irons.

April events

April 22 - The '' John Bull '' arrives in Chicago, Illinois , for the World's Columbian Exposition after traveling under its own power from Jersey City, New Jersey . {Link without Title}

May events

May 10 - New York Central locomotive number 999 pulls a Passenger Train between Batavia and Buffalo, New York , reaching 112.5 Mph (181 Km/h ); this is the first time an American train breaks 100 mph (161 km/h).

June events

June 22 - Robert Lovett succeeds Leland Stanford as the president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad , after Stanford's death. The Chairmanship position vacated by Stanford remains vacant for another 16 years.

July events

July 1 - William Mackenzie purchases the Toronto And Mimico Creek Railway . {Link without Title}

July 10 - The Toronto And Mimico Creek Railway is extended to Mimico Creek . {Link without Title}

September events

September 18 - The Ottawa, Arnprior And Parry Sound Railway opens between Ottawa and Arnprior .

December events

December 6 - The '' John Bull '' leaves the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois , under its own power, headed toward Washington, DC , for its return to the Smithsonian Institution .

December 18 - The Ottawa, Arnprior And Parry Sound Railway opens an extension of the railway from Arnprior to Eganville , Ontario .

December 22 - The '' John Bull '' arrives back in Washington, DC , after traveling under its own power from Chicago, Illinois .

December 23 - The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway enters receivership three days after the railroad's chairman died.

Unknown date events

Eugene V. Debs organizes the first Industrial Union in the United States , the American Railway Union (ARU).

Jacob S. Rogers , son of company founder Thomas Rogers , resigns from the presidency of Rogers Locomotive And Machine Works ; the company's former treasurer becomes president and reorganizes the company as Rogers Locomotive Company .

BIRTHS

November births

November 5 - Raymond Loewy , Industrial Designer who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad designing the shape of equipment such as the GG1 (d. 1986 ).

DEATHS

January deaths

January 27 - Alfred Belpaire , inventor of the Belpaire Firebox for Steam Locomotive s (b. 1820 ).

June deaths

June 21 - Leland Stanford , a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1824 )

December deaths

December 20 - George C. Magoun , Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (b. 1840 ).

Unknown date deaths

Allen Manvel , eleventh president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway (b. 1837 ).

Walter McQueen , Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Albany And Schenectady Railroad 1845 – 1850 , Hudson River Railroad 1850 – 1852 , and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852 – 1876 (b. 1817 ).

REFERENCES

Association of American Railroads (February ). Retrieved June 2 , 2005 .

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

'' Continental engineers ''. Retrieved February 9 2005 .

'' Radial Railway History ''. Retrieved July 7 2005 .

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