1877 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1877.
Contents
Events
May events
- May 1 – Opening of first railway in Burma (Myanmar), from Rangoon (Yangon) to Prome (Pyay) (257 km (160 mi) of metre gauge).[1]
July events
- July 14 – Workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad walk off their jobs in an act that is seen as the start of the great railroad strike of 1877.[2]
- July 16 – Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.[3]
- July 19 – The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway (later absorbed by the Long Island Rail Road) opens.[4]
- July 20 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers riot in Baltimore, Maryland. Nine railroad employees are killed as the Maryland militia attempts to quell the riot.
- July 21 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.
- July 24 – Joel Tiffany is awarded U.S. Patent 193,357 for his design of the first successful refrigerator car.
August events
- August 31 – The first 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railroad in America, the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, begins operations.[5]
November events
- November 4 – Opening of Gustave Eiffel's Maria Pia Bridge carrying the railway across the Douro into Porto, Portugal.
December events
- December 27 – The Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway opens, traversing a route from Montreal through Lachute to Hull.[6]
Unknown date events
- Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles, cross the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona.
- William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is promoted to President of the New York Central system.
- Second railway in Estonia connecting Tapa (on the Tallinn–Saint Petersburg line) with Tartu, the biggest city in Southern Estonia (at this time in the Governorate of Livonia) is opened.[7]
Births
March births
- March 7 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (d. 1943).[8]
Unknown date births
- Edgar Alcock, general manager and chairman of Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds, England (d. 1951).
Deaths
January deaths
- January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).
April deaths
- April 22 – James P. Kirkwood, designer of Starrucca Viaduct (b. 1807).
August deaths
- August 3 – William Butler Ogden, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway (b. 1805).
September deaths
- September 2 – Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Express, one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States, dies (b. 1804).
Unknown date deaths
- Oliver Ames, Jr., president of Union Pacific Railroad 1866–1871, brother of Oakes Ames (b. 1807).[9][10]
- Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (b. 1817).
References
- Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
- Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 12 and July 22, 2005.
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- ↑ Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved December 27, 2005.
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- ↑ Spencer Marks (2005), The Ames Family of North Easton, MA. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
- ↑ Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific: Significant Individuals. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
