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