1832 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1832.

Events

May events

• May 23 - The Festiniog Railway Company Incorporated by Act of Parliament to build a railway from Festiniog to Portmadoc in North Wales for the carriage of slate and other minerals.

June events

• June 9 - The Strasburg Rail Road, today the oldest short-line railroad in the United States, is incorporated.

July events

• July 25 - A cable snaps on an incline of the Granite Railway causing the first rail transport related fatality in the United States.

November events

• November 23 - After assembling Delaware, Matthias W. Baldwin builds his first entirely new steam locomotive, named Old Ironsides.^[1]

• November 26 - The New York and Harlem Railroad opens in New York City.

December events

• December 5 - First carriage of United States mail on the railroad, to West Chester, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Unknown date events

• Matthias W. Baldwin assembles an English-built steam locomotive, the Delaware, for the Newcastle and Frenchtown Railroad; this is the first railroad locomotive that Baldwin works on.
• The Jefferson Works in Paterson, New Jersey, is reorganized as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (later to become Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works).
• Ross Winans patents the 8-wheel railroad car, but the patent is soon disputed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad who call on Gridley Bryant as an expert witness.

Births

January births

• January 13 - Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (d. 1870).

May births

• May 16 - Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line (d. 1901).

Deaths

November deaths

• November 14 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence and a co-founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1737).

References

• Mitchell, Frank (March 1999), M. W. Baldwin. Retrieved February 15, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 22, 2005.

1. ^ Westing, Fred (1966). The Locomotives that Baldwin Built. New York: Bonanza Books. p. 14. 
2. ^ U.S. Post Office Department (1885). History of the Railway Mail Service: a chapter in the history of postal affairs in the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. pp. 28.