1845 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845.

Events

July events

• July – James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.

August events

• August – Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.

Unknown date events

• William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith & Company.
• Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.

Births

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

• William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).

References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30 2005.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9–15.
• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880. Dover Publications, New York, NY. ISBN 0–486–23818–0.