1865 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1865.
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Events
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February events
- February 9 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad, predecessor to the Colorado Central Railroad, is chartered.
- February 15 - The Chicago and Northwestern and Galena and Chicago Union Railroad merge.
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April events
- April - The funeral train for Abraham Lincoln travels from Washington, DC to Illinois.
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June events
- June 9 - Rail accident at Staplehurst, United Kingdom: 10 killed, 49 injured; Charles Dickens is amongst the survivors.
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September events
- September 13 - Algernon S. Buford becomes president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
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Unknown date events
- The Union Pacific Railway, later to become the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and not to be confused with the Union Pacific Railroad, begins operations.
- A group of businessmen in San Francisco, California, led by Timothy Guy Phelps, found the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California.
- Erastus Corning resigns from his executive post for the New York Central.
- The Canadian Engine and Machinery Company, predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, is founded from the assets of the bankrupt Kingston Locomotive Works.
- Missouri Car and Foundry Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Births
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October births
- October 9 - George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904–1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1945).
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Unknown date births
- Frederick Methvan Whyte, mechanical engineer for the New York Central railroad, creator of Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives (d. 1941).
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Deaths
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Unknown date deaths
- William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (b. 1786).
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References
- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
- 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.
