1864 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1864.
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Events
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June events
- June 3 - The first revenue trains operate over the Central Pacific Railroad between Sacramento, California and Newcastle, California.
- June 29 - Beloeil, Quebec, Canada: 99 killed when an immigrant train failed to stop at an open swing bridge and fell into the Richelieu River. May also be called St-Hilaire train disaster.
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July events
- July - Samuel Marsh succeeds Nathaniel Marsh for a second term as president of the Erie Railroad.
- July 2 - The Northern Pacific Railway is chartered to build a northern transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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October events
- October - Robert H. Berdell succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.
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Unknown date events
- Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the Hudson River Railroad.
- Murray, Dougal and Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Milton, Pennsylvania.
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Births
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February births
- February 6 - George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (d. 1923).
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June births
- June 8 - Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type (d. 1913).
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Deaths
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Unknown date deaths
- Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1784).
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References
- Erie Railroad presidents (http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html). Retrieved March 15 2005.
- (April 27 2004), Herbert William Garratt (http://www.steamindex.com/people/garratt.htm). Retrieved February 9 2005.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. Dover Publications, New York, NY. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
