1854 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1854.

Events

February events

• February 15 – Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, opens for railroad traffic.

June events

• June – The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by steamboat.

July events

• July 3 – The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York, opens for passenger service.

October events

• October 20 – Kingtson Locomotive Works, the predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, completes construction of its first steam locomotive.

Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood purchases the steam locomotive manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works and folds it into Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Henry Farnam becomes president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

Births

January births

• January 6 – William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway (d. 1932).

Deaths

February deaths

• February 19 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (b. 1810)

References

• Virtual American Biographies – Henry Farnam. Retrieved March 1 2005.