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1827 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1826.

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Events

March events

April events

May events

October events

Births

January births

March births

April births

December births

Unknown date births

  • John P. Laird, Scottish engineer who designed and patented the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (d. 1882).

Deaths

February deaths

References

  • White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797. 
  • 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. 
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  4. ^ Whishaw, Francis (Reprinted and republished 1969) [1840]. The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland practically described and illustrated (3rd ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles (1842 edition - London: John Weale). ISBN 0-7153-4786-1. 
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  6. ^ Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. 
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