1897 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1897.
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Events
Unknown date events
- E. H. Harriman becomes a director of the Union Pacific Railroad.
- Several smaller railroads in South Carolina are merged to form the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company of South Carolina, a predecessor of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
Births
February births
- February 14 – Robert R. Young, chairman of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and New York Central (d. 1958).
Deaths
May deaths
- May 20 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (b. 1814).
October deaths
- October 19 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (b. 1831).
Unknown date deaths
- Aretas Blood, second superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works (b. 1816).
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