1859 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1859.
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Events
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January events
- January 11 - The Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, forerunner of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is chartered to build a railroad from Topeka, Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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June events
- June 2 - the organization that is to become the Chicago and Northwestern railroad purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad.
- June 7 - the Chicago and Northwestern railroad is chartered.
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August events
- August - Samuel Marsh succeeds Charles Moran as president of the Erie Railroad.
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Births
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January births
- January 11 - Charles Bowen-Cooke, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1909–1920 (d. 1920).
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Deaths
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October deaths
- October 12 - Robert Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1803).
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References
- Baker Library Historical Collections, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879-1896 (http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/sfa/atchison,_topeka.htm). Retrieved May 10 2005.
- The Cosmopolitan (February 1893), The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/statsf.Html). Retrieved May 10 2005.
- Erie Railroad presidents (http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html). Retrieved March 15 2005.
