1874 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1874.

Events

May events

• May 5 – The Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad is chartered in Massachusetts.

July events

• July – Hugh J. Jewett succeeds Peter H. Watson as president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

• November 7 – The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway Company, the predecessor of the Miami Valley Railway, is incorporated.
• November 8 – Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad reach Bakersfield, California; work begins on the route that would eventually become the Tehachapi Loop.

Unknown date events

• The Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, an early predecessor of the Milwaukee Road, changes its official name to Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul
• Dr. Livingston Stone of the US Fish Commission (which later became the United States Fish and Wildlife Service) "chaperoned" a shipment of 35,000 shad fry to stock the Sacramento River in California in the first such delivery by rail aboard a fish car.

Births

Deaths

May deaths

• May 27 – John Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852–1874 (b. 1808).

Unknown date deaths

• Joseph Harrison, Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (b. 1810).

References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
• U.S. Government Printing Office (1979), The Fish Car Era of the National Fish Hatchery System. Retrieved March 28 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.