Information about 1878 In Rail Transport
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Events
January events
- January 18 - Construction on The Ghan route south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.
February events
- February 5 - The first train is operated on the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad from Renton to Newcastle.[1]
May events
- May 9 - The final segment of the Romanian railway between Varciorova in the south and Roman in the north opens.
June events
- June 1 - The North British Railway's Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, is opened to public traffic, making it the longest in the world at that date.[2]
July events
- July 2 - The Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway, original predecessor of the BMT Brighton Line, in modern Brooklyn, New York, opens to Brighton Beach on Coney Island.
Unknown date events
- Fred Harvey enters a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to build and operate the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that will serve the railroad's passengers.
- The first Shay locomotive is built.
- The Richmond and Danville Railroad acquires the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
- The Canadian Engine and Machinery Company is reorganized after a bankruptcy as the Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company.
- The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, lessee of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, declares bankruptcy.
Births
March births
- March 2 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1944).
Unknown date births
- Angus Daniel McDonald, president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1932–1941 (d. 1941).[3][4]
Deaths
March deaths
- March 29 - Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1813).
October deaths
- October 19 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, designer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Thomas Viaduct (still in use today), dies (d. 1806).
Unknown date deaths
- Daniel McCallum, General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855-1858 (b. 1815).
References
1. ^ HistoryLink (2006), This week in state and local history. Retrieved February 5 2006.
2. ^ Thomas, John (1969). The North British Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4697-0.
3. ^ The McDonald bloodline. Retrieved on 2005-02-15.
4. ^ Yenne, Bill (1985). The history of the Southern Pacific. New York: Bonanza.
2. ^ Thomas, John (1969). The North British Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4697-0.
3. ^ The McDonald bloodline. Retrieved on 2005-02-15.
4. ^ Yenne, Bill (1985). The history of the Southern Pacific. New York: Bonanza.
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The Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad (also Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company[1]) was the first railroad in Seattle. Construction began on May 1 1874, at Steele's Landing in Georgetown – the present-day intersection of E.
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