1883 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1883.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 10 - The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway enters bankruptcy and is sold at foreclosure.
- January 12 - The second transcontinental railroad line in North America is completed as the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks from Los Angeles, California, meet the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio at the Pecos River. The golden spike is driven by Col. Tom Pierce, the GH&SA president, atop the Pecos River High Bridge
[edit] February events
- February - Central Pacific Railroad completes construction of the largest locomotive in the world for its time, El Gobernador.<ref>Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5.</ref>
[edit] March events
- March 30 - Construction on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches Salt Lake City, Utah.<ref>Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society. This month in railroad history: March. Retrieved on March 29, 2006.</ref>
[edit] August events
- August - The Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway enters receivership.
- August - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Albuquerque, New Mexico, reaches Needles, California.
- August 4 - The first electric railway in Britain opens near Brighton.
- August 11 - The California Southern Railroad receives a court order in its favor ordering the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) to allow it to cross SP tracks at Colton, California.<ref name="D&K27">Duke, Donald, and Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books, p 27. ISBN 0-87095-009-6.</ref>
- August 18 - Construction on the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary, Alberta.
[edit] September events
- September 8 - Northern Pacific Railway completes its connection to the Pacific coast in Washington with a final spike ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana.
- September 13 - A month after a frog war with the Southern Pacific Railroad in Colton, California, the first California Southern Railroad train arrives in San Bernardino.<ref name="D&K27" /><ref>Signor, John R. (1988). The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company; Union Pacific's Historic Salt Lake Route. San Marino, California: Golden West Books, p 17. ISBN 0-87095-101-7.</ref>
[edit] October events
- October 4 - The first ever Orient Express passenger train service leaves Paris for Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), by way of Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, and Varna.
[edit] Unknown date events
- The National Railway Appliance Exhibition is held in Chicago, Illinois.
- William Henry Vanderbilt resigns from the presidency of the New York Central system and appoints his heirs to chairmanship positions in the system's constituent railroad companies. James H. Rutter succeeds Vanderbilt as president.
- Franklin B. Gowen retires from the presidency of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
- Philip Armour founds Armour Refrigerator Line, as a subsidiary of his meatpacking firm Armour and Company, to operate refrigerator cars that will carry Armour meat products.
- The Colorado Midland Railway is incorporated.
- Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad fully acquires the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.
[edit] Births
[edit] December births
- December 27 - Cyrus S. Eaton, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the 1950s (d. 1979).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January deaths
- January 13 - Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company, dies (b. 1817).
[edit] July deaths
- July 23 - Ginery Twichell, president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad beginning in 1857, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1870–1873 (b. 1811).
[edit] October deaths
- October 4 - Henry Farnam, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1854–1863 (b. 1803).
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- William Swinburne, American locomotive designer and builder (b. 1805).
[edit] References
- Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History - January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Ginery Twichell. Retrieved July 15 2005.
- Depew, Chauncey M. My Memories of Eighty Years. Retrieved February 23 2005.
- Franklin Gowen. Retrieved March 2 2005.
- Left, Sarah, The Guardian Unlimited (January 15 2002), Key dates in Britain's railway history. Retrieved August 4 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: August. Retrieved August 16 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- Virtual American Biographies - Henry Farnam. Retrieved March 1 2005.
- Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 43-44.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
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