1861 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1861.

Events

April events

• April – Nathaniel Marsh succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.

Unknown date events

• Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Berwick, Pennsylvania.

Births

November births

• November 2 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892–1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902–1912, Director of the London and North Eastern Railway 1912–1945 (d. 1946).

Deaths

References

• (January 16 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.