1884 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1884.

Events

February events

• February 22 – Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive.

March events

• March 17 – The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky.

October events

• October – John King succeeds Hugh J. Jewett as president of the Erie Railroad.

Unknown date events

• The Smithsonian Institution acquires the John Bull from the Pennsylvania Railroad as the museum's first example of railroad technology.
• Charles Francis Adams, Jr. becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Births

July births

• July 6 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (d. 1970).

December births

• December 9 – Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1954).

Deaths

May deaths

• May 17 – George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (b. 1808).

September deaths

• September 26 – John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1858– (b. 1820).

References

• Biography of John Work Garrett. Retrieved March 2 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.
• George Muirson Totten. Retrieved February 9 2005
• Soylent Communications (2005), Charles Francis Adams, Jr.. Retrieved February 21 2005.
• White, John H, Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, Railroad History, 154, p. 9–15.