1894 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1894.

Events

May events

• May 11 – 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company go on strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town, Pullman, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago, Illinois).

November events

• November – Eben B. Thomas succeeds John King as president of the Erie Railroad.

Unknown date events

• The Southern Railway is formed from the combination of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
• Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, starts manufacturing Heisler locomotives.
• Oliver Robert Hawke Bury moves from the Chief mechanical engineer position at the Great Western Railway of Brazil to the same position at the Entre Rios Railway in Argentina.

Births

Deaths

References

• (January 16 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005.