1892 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1892.

Events

May events

• May 20 – The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London's Paddington station.

Unknown date events

• Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive.
• The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership.
• Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil.
• Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
• The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, is founded.

Births

Deaths

September deaths

• September 7 – Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813).

December deaths

• December 2 – Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836).

Unknown date deaths

• Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (b. 1810).

References

• (January 16 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10 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.
• A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9 2005.