1859 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1859.

Events

January events

• January 11 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is chartered to build a railroad from Topeka, Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

June events

• June 2 – the organization that is to become the Chicago and Northwestern railroad purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad.
• June 7 – the Chicago and Northwestern railroad is chartered.

August events

• August – Samuel Marsh succeeds Charles Moran as president of the Erie Railroad.

Births

January births

• January 11 – Charles Bowen-Cooke, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1909–1920 (d. 1920).

Deaths

October deaths

• October 12 – Robert Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder.

References

• Baker Library Historical Collections, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879–1896. Retrieved May 10 2005.
• The Cosmopolitan (February 1893), The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Retrieved May 10 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.