1897 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1897.
Events
March events
- March 24 – Construction begins on the Sierra Railway of California, now known as the Sierra Railroad, between Oakdale and Jamestown, California.[1]
May events
- May 4 – The Colorado Midlandout of bankruptcy to private investors.
June events
June 11 – The Welshampton rail crash in England kills 12.
July events
- July – The Railway Magazine is first published, in London.
- July 1 – The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad is reorganized as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company (later to become the Monon Railroad).
- July 12 – The St. Louis - San Francisco Railway, is incorporated in the Oklahoma Territory.[2]
- July 22 – At the railroad's first stockholder meeting, the Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad. a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, officially changes its name to Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad.[3]
August events
- August 17 – W. B. Purvis is awarded a patent for an electric railroad switch.[4]
- August 23 – Ottawa and New York Railway.[5]
- August 27 – Whirlpool Rapids Bridge wholly replaces the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge on the U.S.–Canadian border.
- August 28 – Construction begins on the Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian lines of the Trans-Siberian Railway.[6]
- August 31 – Charles Sanger Mellen succeeds Edwin Winter as president of Northern Pacific Railway.[7]
September events
- September 1 – The Tremont Street Subway tunnel in Boston, the oldest subwaytunnel in North America, opens.
October events
- October 3 – The Elevated train began using the Loop on October 11, and South Side Elevated trains began using the Loop on October 18.[8]
- October – Construction begins in Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway.
November events
- November 2 – The
- November 23 – Andrew J. Beard invents the "jerry coupler".[4]
December events
- December 27 – The first train is operated on the Randsburg Railway between Kramer and Johannesburg, California.[10]
Unknown date events
- Several smaller railroads in South Carolina are merged to form the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company of South Carolina, a predecessor of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
- First successful class of
- The Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway begins full service between Ottawa, Ontario and Parry Sound, Ontario.
- Estado de México.[13]
Births
February births
- February 14 – New York Central(d. 1958).
November births
- November 16 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946–1948, is born (d. 1978).
Unknown date births
- Wayne A. Johnston, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1945–1966 (d. 1967).[15]
Deaths
April deaths
- April 3 – German American civil engineerand railroad manager (b. 1827).
May deaths
- May 20 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (b. 1814).
July deaths
- July 17 – Southern Pacific Railroad, dies (b. 1854).
September deaths
- September 14 – Norwegian State Railways(NSB) 1865–1897 (b. 1825).
October deaths
- October 19 – industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company(b. 1831).
December deaths
- December 1 – William Dudley Chipley, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873–1876 (b. 1840).
Unknown date deaths
- Aretas Blood, second superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works (b. 1816).
References
- Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: August. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
- ^ California State Railroad Museum Foundation (2001), A brief history of the Sierra Railway and Railroad Archived April 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 24, 2006.
- ^ Good, Mike (May 9, 1999). "Corporate History: St. Louis – San Francisco Railway Company". Archived from the original on July 17, 2005. Retrieved July 10, 2005.
- ^ New York Central Railroad (1913). "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". Archived from the original on March 29, 2006. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
- ^ a b Ali-Dinar; Ali B. (eds.). "Today in Black History". Archived from the original on August 22, 2005. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
- ^ "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. July 30, 2006. Archived from the original on August 28, 2006. Retrieved August 23, 2006.
- ^ Trans-Siberian Web Encyclopedia (2004). "Stages of Great Siberian Way construction". Archived from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2005.
- ^ Busbey, T. Addison, ed. (1906). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1906. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. p. 666.
- ^ Chicago "L".org. "Metropolitan West Side Elevated". Retrieved October 11, 2005.
- ^ Vallance, H. A. (1963). The Highland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles.
- ^ Randsburg Railway – History Archived December 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 27, 2005.
- ^ Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 29 Archived July 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine – retrieved October 26, 2006
- ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
- ^ Best, Gerald M. (1968). Mexican Narrow Gauge. Howell-North.
- ^ "Ajalugu" (in Estonian). Eesti Raudtee. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives, Wayne A. Johnston Papers, 1945–1967 Archived June 7, 2002, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved February 9, 2006.