1868 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1868.

Events

January events

• January 1 – Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
• January 14 – The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad.

May events

• May – The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

July events

• July – Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad.

August events

• August 20 – The Abergele train disaster, the first major railway disaster in Britain, occurs.

September events

• September 25 – The Big Four purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.

October events

• October 30 – Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

Unknown date events

• Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad

Births

May births

• May 26 – Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944).

Deaths

References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
• Gibson, Elizabeth (July 16 2002), The Old West – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (Part 1). Retrieved May 13 2005.
• (February 26 1999), Railway engineers – Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell. Retrieved February 10 2005.
• (November 2 2004), Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell. Retrieved February 10 2005.