1868 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1868.

Contents

1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 May events 1.3 July events 1.4 August events 1.5 September events 1.6 October events 1.7 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 May births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events

January events

• January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
• January 14 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad.

May events

• May - The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

July events

• July - Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad.

August events

• August 20 - Abergele train disaster, Wales; the first major railway disaster in Britain: passenger train collides with runaway goods wagons and their load of paraffin explodes. 33 dead, engine driver badly burned.

September events

• September 25 - The Big Four purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.

October events

• October 30 - Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

Unknown date events

• Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad

Births

May births

• May 26 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944).

Deaths

References

• Erie Railroad presidents (http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html). Retrieved March 15 2005.
• Gibson, Elizabeth (July 16 2002), The Old West - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (Part 1) (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/old_west/93512). Retrieved May 13 2005.
• (February 26 1999), Railway engineers - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (http://www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk/enthuse/engineers/southern/maunsell.htm). Retrieved February 10 2005.
• (November 2 2004), Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (http://www.steamindex.com/people/maunsell.htm). Retrieved February 10 2005.

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