1874, 1875, 1876

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1875.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 February events 1.2 March events 1.3 April events 1.4 August events 1.5 September events 1.6 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 May births 3 Deaths 3.1 January deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] February events

• February 9 - The first train passes through the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts.

[edit] March events

• March 24 - The Mayor of Los Angeles, California, approves a measure to allow the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad, a predecessor of the Pacific Electric Railway, to extend its line to connect to the Southern Pacific Railroad train station.^[1]

[edit] April events

• April 26 - Prince Edward Island Railway operates its first regularly scheduled train between Charlottetown and Georgetown.^[2]

[edit] August events

• August 30 - Groundbreaking ceremonies are held in Pembroke, Ontario, for the Canada Central Railway line between Pembroke and Renfrew.^[3]

[edit] September events

• September 13 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Las Animas, Colorado.^[4]
• September 27 - Railway Jubilee at Darlington (in honour of the Stockton and Darlington Railway). ^[5]

[edit] Unknown date events

• The American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is founded.
• The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad purchases the line between Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas.^[4]
• Russian engineer and inventor Fyodor Pirotsky put electrically powered railway cars on the Sestroretsks railway Miller's line (not far from the station Miller's pier).^[6]

[edit] Births

[edit] May births

• May 9 - H. P. M. Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920–1922 (d. 1948).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January deaths

• January 18 - William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway (b. 1807).^[7]

[edit] References

1. ^ Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California, The Street Railway History of Los Angeles. Retrieved March 24, 2006.
2. ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. 2006-03-17. http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm. Retrieved 2006-04-26. 
3. ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 23, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved August 30, 2005.
4. ^ ^{a b} Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
5. ^ The Railway Year Book 1912, Railway Publishing Company, London.
6. ^ Chepurin, Sergey; Arkady Nikolayenko (May 2007). "Sestroretsk and Primorskaya railways(Сестрорецкая и Приморская железные дороги)" (in ru). http://terijoki.spb.ru/trk_about.php3. http://terijoki.spb.ru/railway/rw_dir_sestr.php#red. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
7. ^ William Henry Aspinwall. Retrieved February 9, 2005.