1861, 1862, 1863

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1862.

Events

January events

• January 1 - Maj. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson marches his troops northward with the objective of disrupting traffic on the B&O Railroad and C&O Canal; the Battle of Hancock is unsuccessful and the Confederate Army withdraws.

April events

• April 12 - Andrew's Raiders steal The General and drive it north toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, with Western and Atlantic Railroad conductor William Fuller chasing it in the Great Locomotive Chase.

May events

• May 6 - The bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States House of Representatives.

June events

• June 20 - The bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States Senate.

July events

• July 1 - The Pacific Railroad Act is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
• July 1 - The Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.
• July 1 - Effective date of creation of Great Eastern Railway in England by amalgamation of Eastern Counties Railway, Eastern Union Railway, East Anglian Railway, Newmarket Railway and Norfolk Railway Companies.^[1]
• July 28 - The first railway post office car in North America is operated over the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, the mail being transferred to stagecoach in St. Joseph, Missouri, for the rest of the journey to California.^[2]
• July 29 - The Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company began streetcar operations on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

August events

• August 15 - Opening of first railroad in Algeria, from Algiers to Blida (48 km (30 mi) of 1445 mm gauge).^[3]

September events

• September 1 - James Staats Forbes becomes General Manager of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.

October events

• October 3 - Kongsvingerbanen opens between Lillestrøm and Kongsvinger, Norway.

November events

• November 10 - Chicago and North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin.^[4]

Unknown date events

• Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the New York and Harlem Railroad.
• Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn opens Essen Hauptbahnhof station.

Births

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

• Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (b. 1822).
• Septimus Norris, steam locomotive designer often credited as designing the first 4-6-0 (b. 1818).

References

• Cooper, Bruce C., CPRR.org (2004), Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Retrieved July 28, 2005.

1. ^ Allen, Cecil J. (1968). The Great Eastern Railway. London: Ian Allan. 
2. ^ "First as well as fast" (Fall 2006). Classic Trains 7 (3): p 27. ISSN 1527-0718. 
3. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7. 
4. ^ Follmar, Joe, and August, Paul (Winter 2003). "The C&NW in the Fox River Valley". North Western Lines 30 (3): 26–49. ISSN 0279-5000.