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EVENTS

January events

January 3 - Tired of its cars being routed to the Boston And Maine Railroad by mistake, the Brookville And Mahoning Railroad of Pennsylvania changes its name to the Pittsburg And Shawmut Railroad .

February events

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March events

March 1 - A snowslide buries 3 passenger trains in the Cascades, killing 118. It's the worst snowslide accident in U.S. history.

June events

June 6 - the US Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893 is further extended to mandate that no less than 85% of all Railroad Car s in an operating train must be equipped with Air Brakes .

July events

July 11 - Construction begins on the Sheridan Railway in Sheridan, Wyoming .

July 18 - A Passenger Train travelling through dense Fog hits a stationary Locomotive in Richmond, Victoria , Australia , killing nine people on the moving train.

July 26 - The London And South Western Railway introduces new Continental service, Southampton - Havre .

August events

August 22 - The first Western Pacific Railroad Passenger Train to operate over the railroad's entire route from Salt Lake City, Utah , arrives in San Francisco, California .

September events

September 21 A Fort Wayne And Wabash Valley Traction Interurban Car overruns a meeting point at Kingsland, Indiana , and smashes Head On into a northbound interurban. Forty-one people are killed in the worst accident of the interurban era.

October events

October 1 - The Great Western Railway , in England , abolishes second-class rail fares (first- and third-class remain).

November events

November 27 - Pennsylvania Railroad 's Manhattan Transfer station and the New Jersey side of the railroad's Hudson River Tunnel s (built by the Pennsylvania Tunnel And Terminal Railroad ) open in New York City .

December events

December 24 - The Hawes Junction Train Disaster in Cumbria , England , occurs when a busy signalman forgets about a pair of bank Engines waiting at his starting Signal and he then allows two trains into the one block section.

Unknown date events

The city of Cleveland, Ohio , approves a Bond Measure to pay for the Nickel Plate Road 's Grade Separation project through the densest part of the city.

Pennsylvania Railroad opens Pennsylvania Station in New York City .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

March deaths

March 7 - George Whale , Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London And North Western Railway 1903 – 1909 (b. 1842 ).

REFERENCES

Fry, David ( 2005 .

Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, ( 2005 .

Uptown Sheridan Association, Inc. ( 2005 .