Information about 1857 In Rail Transport

Events

January events

• January 13 - Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381  for a railroad scale.

February events

• February 9 - The Central Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Nebraska Territory to build a railroad from the Missouri River through the Rocky Mountains to Washington Territory.^[1]

April events

• April 11 - The Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway company (PLM) is formed in France by amalgamation of the Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) and the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon (PL) companies.

May events

• May 7 - Formal opening of Midland Railway Leicester–Hitchin line, England.

June events

• June 4 - The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.

August events

• August 30 - Opening of first railway in Argentina, from Buenos Aires to the suburb of Floresta ( km ( mi) of 5ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge).^[2]

October events

• October - Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad.^[3]

December events

• December 15 - George S. Griggs is awarded U.S. Patent 18,883  for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird.

Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad.
• The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars.
• Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in U.S.

Births

January births

• January 31 - George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922 (d. 1933).^[4]

November births

• November 17 - William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 (d. 1940).^[5][6]

  Deaths

  Unknown date deatha

  • Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794).

  April deaths

  • April 20 - George Hennet, English railway contractor (b. 1799).^[7]

  References

  • White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0. 
  1. ^ An Act to Incorporate the Central Pacific Railroad Company. The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (1858). Retrieved on 2006-05-18.
  2. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7. 
  3. ^ Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved on 2005-03-15.
  4. ^ Rogers, H. C. B. (1975). G. J. Churchward: a locomotive biography. London: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-385069-3. 
  5. ^ id="CITEREF">"W. B. Storey Dies", New York Times, October 30 1940, <[1] (retrieved on 2005-08-19)
  6. ^ Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p 43-44.1950&rft.pub=University%20of%20Kansas%20Press&rft.place=Lawrence,%20Kansas&rft.pages=p%2043-44"> 
  7. ^ Kay, Peter (1991). Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history. Sheffield: Platform 5. ISBN 1-87252-442-7. 
  
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  • 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

  
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  Central Pacific Railroad
  
  Locale Sacramento, CA-Ogden, Utah
  Dates of operation 1863 – April 1 1885 but continued as SP Leased Line
  
  Track gauge 4 ft 8 in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
  
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  The Nebraska Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States from May 30, 1854 until March 1, 1867 when Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state. It was established by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The territorial capital was Omaha.
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  Origin Confluence of Madison, Gallatin and Jefferson in Montana.
  Mouth Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri
  Basin countries USA, Canada
  Length 2,341 miles (3,767 km)
  Source elevation 4,045 ft
  Mouth elevation 400 ft
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  The Rocky Mountains
  
  

  Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

  
  
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  The Washington Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States that was formed in February 8, 1853 from the portion of the Oregon Territory north of the lower Columbia River and north of the 46th parallel east of the Columbia.
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  • 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

  
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  The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (usually known more simply as the PLM) was a French railway company.
  
  Created between 1858 and 1862 from the amalgamation of the earlier Paris-Lyon and Lyon-Méditerranée companies, and subsequently
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  Motto
  Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
  "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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  "La Marseillaise"
  
  

  
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  • 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses.

  
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  Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
  
  Initially, the MR's main line, now known as the Midland Main Line, connected the East Midlands to London and to
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  City of Leicester
  Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower
  Location within England
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  Sovereign state  United Kingdom
  
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  Hitchin
  
  

  Hitchin (United Kingdom)

  
  Hitchin shown within the United Kingdom
  Population 30,360
  OS grid reference TL181292
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  Motto
  Dieu et mon droit   (French)
  "God and my right"
  Anthem
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  • 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.

  
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  Mississippi River
  
  

  Mississippi River in New Orleans.

  
  
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  The Mississippi and Ohio Railroad was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio and East St. Louis, Illinois from 1857 to 1893.
  
  The railroad started in 1854 and paralleled the Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal. Its East St.
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  Cincinnati, Ohio
  
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  Nickname: The Queen City
  Motto: Juncta Juvant (Lat. Strength in Unity)
  Location in Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
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  St. Louis, Missouri
  
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  • 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

  
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  Motto
  En unión y libertad   (Spanish)
  "In Union and Freedom"
  Anthem
  Himno Nacional Argentino
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  Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
  Buenos Aires
  The Nueve de Julio Avenue, named in honor of Argentine Independence Day (July 9, 1816)
  
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