1852 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1852.

Events

October events

• October 10 – the first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Unknown date events

• John Cooke steps down from the superintendent position at Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works to partner with Charles Danforth in forming the new locomotive manufacturing company, Danforth, Cooke and Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
• The first 2–6–0 steam locomotives are built.
• John Edgar Thomson becomes president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Births

Unknown date births

• J. Elfreth Watkins, railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.

Deaths