1850, 1851, 1852

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1851.

Events

February events

• February 4 - The Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad is incorporated in Ohio.^[1]
• February 7 - the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, the earliest predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, is incorporated.
• February 10 - The Illinois Central Railroad is chartered.^[2]
• February 25 - the first passenger train on the Milwaukee Road operates over what is then known as the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad between Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

April events

• April 19 - The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, in New York state, is chartered.

June events

• June - The first "refrigerated boxcar" enters service on the Northern Railroad of New York.

July events

• July 4 - Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the Pacific Railroad Company, a railroad later to become the Missouri Pacific Railroad

December events

• December 22 - The first railway operates in India, hauling construction material in Roorkee.
• December 25 - Opening of first railway in Chile, from Caldera to Copiapó (80.5 km (50 mi) of standard gauge climbing (396 m (1,299 ft)).^[3]

Unknown date events

• The oldest line to become a part of the Southern Pacific Railroad system, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway begins construction between Houston, Texas, and Alleyton, Texas.
• The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad changes its name to the Mohawk Valley Railroad.

Births

June births

• June 24 - Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad 1887-1907 (d. 1923).

September births

• September 16 - Henry Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) 1896-1911 (d. 1923).

Deaths

References

1. ^ Morris, J.C., Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved February 4, 2006.
2. ^ Steamtown National Historic Site, Illinois Central Railroad number 790. Retrieved February 10, 2006.
3. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.