1836 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1836.

Events

January events

• January 16 – The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest portion of what is to become the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, is chartered.

May events

• May 5 – The Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered as the successor to the Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad in Massachusetts and eastern New York.

July events

• July 13 – John Ruggles is awarded U.S. Patent 1 for his improvements to railroad steam locomotive tires.

Unknown date events

• The Louisa Railroad of Louisa County, Virginia, an early predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins construction.

Births

February births

• February 9 – Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866–1883 (d. 1889).

May births

• May 21 – Francis William Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (d. 1906).
• May 27 – Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1892).

September births

• September 17 – William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (d. 1909).

Deaths

January deaths

• January 7 – John Molson, established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada (b. 1763).

References

• Franklin Gowen. Retrieved March 2 2005.
• Pennsylvania Railroad Historical and Technical Society (June 2004), PRR Chronology, 1836 (PDF). Retrieved March 5 2005.
• White, John H, Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, Railroad History, 154, p. 9–15.