1864 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1864.
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Events
June events
- June 3 – The first revenue trains operate over the Central Pacific Railroad between Sacramento, California and Newcastle, California.
July events
- July – Samuel Marsh succeeds Nathaniel Marsh for a second term as president of the Erie Railroad.
- July 2 – The Northern Pacific Railway is chartered to build a northern transcontinental railroad in the United States.
October events
- October – Robert H. Berdell succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.
Unknown date events
- Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the Hudson River Railroad.
- Murray, Dougal and Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Milton, Pennsylvania.
Births
February births
- February 6 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (d. 1923).
June births
- June 8 – Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type (d. 1913).
Deaths
Unknown date deaths
- Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1784).
References
- Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
- (April 27 2004), Herbert William Garratt. Retrieved February 9 2005.
- 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.
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