1883, 1884, 1885

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1884.

Events

February events

• February 22 - Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive.

March events

• March 17 - The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky.
• March - Central Pacific Railroad's El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world, enters service.^[1]

June events

• June 11 - The Pine Bluff and Swan Lake Railway, in Arkansas (later to become part of the Cotton Belt Railroad), is incorporated.^[2]

July events

• July 23 - The Iron Railroad in Ohio is reincorporated as the Iron Railway.

September events

• September 20 - Opening of the Arlbergtunnel (10.25 km (6 mi)), completing the Arlberg Railway in Austria, the main east–west rail link through the Alps.^[3]

October events

• October - John King succeeds Hugh J. Jewett as president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

• November 13 - The Hagener Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft in Hagen, Germany, opens its first 2 km (1.2 mile) long horse-car line.
• November 28 - Northern Pacific Railroad establishes the town of Pasco, Washington, at the junction of its lines between Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Portland, Oregon.

Unknown date events

• Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, completes its connection between Needles and Mojave, California.
• The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch (SFRD) is established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
• The Smithsonian Institution acquires the John Bull from the Pennsylvania Railroad as the museum's first example of railroad technology.
• Charles Francis Adams, Jr. becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Births

July births

• July 6 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (d. 1970).

December births

• December 9 - Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1954).

Deaths

May deaths

• May 17 - George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (b. 1808).

September deaths

• September 26 - John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1858– (b. 1820).

Unknown date deaths

• Wendel Bollman, designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (b. 1814).

References

• Biography of John Work Garrett. Retrieved March 2, 2005.
• HistoryLink (2005), This week in state and local history. Retrieved November 28, 2005.
• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• George Muirson Totten. Retrieved February 9, 2005
• Morris, J. C. (1902), Ohio Railway Report. Retrieved July 19, 2005.
• Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
• Soylent Communications (2005), Charles Francis Adams, Jr.. Retrieved February 21, 2005.
• White, John H, Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, Railroad History, 154, p. 9-15.

1. ^ Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A. (1987). Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium. Shade Tree Books. ISBN 0-930742-12-5. 
2. ^ Beck, Wayne, (August 21, 1998), The History of the Cotton Belt Railroad. Retrieved June 10, 2005.
3. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.