1888 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1888.
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Events
February events
- February 24 – Grand Trunk Railway acquires the Northern and Northwestern Railway.[1]
- February 29 – Opening of Listowel and Ballybunion monorail.[2]
April events
- April 1 – The Old Colony Railroad leases the Boston and Providence Railroad for a period of 99 years.
June events
- June 15 – The first train to Casper, Wyoming, operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway, arrives.[3]
August events
- August 12 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary companies complete construction of the final link in what has come to be known as the Surf Line connecting Los Angeles and San Diego.[4]
September events
- September 10 – The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (later to become known as the Milwaukee Road) operates the first passenger train with electric lights (rather than gas lights) in the United States west of Chicago, Illinois, on a train between Chicago and the Twin Cities.[5]
- September 18 – The first revenue train on the Canada Atlantic Railway's Chaudière Extension departs for Chaudière Falls, Ontario (near Ottawa).[6]
November events
- November 10 – Opening of Saint-Chély–Neussargues line in France over Garabit viaduct.[7]
December events
- December 29 – First train crosses Poughkeepsie Bridge, New York.[8]
Unknown date events
- Spring – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway begins through service between Kansas City, Kansas, and Chicago, Illinois, over the railroad's newly completed line.[9]
- Sir William Cornelius Van Horne succeeds George Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.[10][11]
- The Canadian Pacific acquires control of the Soo Line, renaming it to the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad.
- First articulated Mallet locomotive completed, by Tubize of Belgium.[12]
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Deaths
April deaths
- April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English steam locomotive designer who produced the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel (b. 1816).[13]
June deaths
- June 14 – Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1822).
References
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved December 28, 2005.
- ^ Guerin, Michael (1988). The Lartigue: Listowel and Ballybunion Railway. Listowel: Lartigue Centenary Committee. ISBN 0-9513549-0-6.
- ^ Casper Star-Tribune (June 22, 2005). "BP Amoco Timeline". http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/06/22/news/casper/a2e0ab59d0ef19c0872570270020fd84.txt. Retrieved June 22, 2005.
- ^ Duke, Donald; Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. p. 43. ISBN 0-87095-009-6.
- ^ Milwaukee Road Historical Association. "A Brief History of the Milwaukee Road". http://www.mrha.com/history.cfm. Retrieved April 28, 2006.
- ^ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005). "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Archived from the original on 04 October 2005. http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm. Retrieved September 18, 2005.
- ^ "Garabit en quelques dates". Garabit, la plus belle réalisation de Gustave Eiffel. http://www.garabit-viaduc-eiffel.com/12-Le-chantier-en-quelques-dates.html. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
- ^ Poughkeepsie Bridge at Structurae
- ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally.
- ^ Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. "Biography". http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7754. Retrieved July 18, 2007.
- ^ Knowles, Valerie (2004). From Telegrapher to Titan : the life of William C. Van Horne. Toronto: Dundurn. ISBN 1-55002-488-4.
- ^ Durrant, A. E. (1974). The Mallet Locomotive. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5904-5.
- ^ Steamindex (September 25, 2004). "Thomas Crampton". Archived from the original on 10 February 2005. http://www.steamindex.com/people/crampton.htm. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
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