- Source: 1879 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1879.
Events
= January events
=January 28 – Construction of the Waimea Plains Railway, the first railway constructed under the District Railways Act of 1878, reaches Inverrcagill, New Zealand.
= February events
=February 10 – The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railway begins freight operations.
= May events
=May – James J. Hill forms the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway from the assets of the bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific.
May 17 – The Texas and St. Louis Railway, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is organized as a way to ship cotton south to Texas.
May 31 – The first electric railway opens at the Berlin Trades Exposition.
= July events
=July 4 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Las Vegas, New Mexico.
July 17 – Freycinet Plan enacted in France to extend rail and other transportation systems.
July 31 – The Caledonian Railway opens the original Glasgow Central station in Scotland.
= November events
=November 1 – The first British dining car service leaves Leeds for London King's Cross. This is provided by the Pullman car Princess of Wales which accommodates just 10 first-class passengers.
November 20 – Narrow gauge Sandy River Railroad completed to Phillips, Maine.
November 22 – The North Pennsylvania Railroad begins operating the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Railroad.
November 25 – The Waldenburgerbahn is founded as a separate company and takes over the concession for the railway from Liestal to Waldenburg, Switzerland.
= December events
=December 1 – Solano, the largest rail ferryboat ever constructed, is put into service in California.
December 28 – Tay Bridge disaster: The North British Railway's Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay in Scotland collapses in a violent storm while a passenger train is crossing it. 75 lives are lost. William Topaz McGonagall produces his epic poem The Tay Bridge Disaster to commemorate the event.
= Unknown date events
=Southern Pacific Railroad engineers experiment with the first oil-fired steam locomotives.
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad constructs the Puerto Suello Hill Tunnel in Marin County, California.
Births
= March births
=March 6 – Patrick H. Joyce, president Chicago Great Western Railway 1931–1946 (d. 1946).
= April births
=April 24 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Mantis, controls the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads (d. 1936).
= August births
=August 20 – Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railway 1919–1932 and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1932–1949 (d. 1962).
= October births
=October 18 – Charles Eugene Denney, president of Erie Railroad 1929–1939 and Northern Pacific Railway 1939–1950 (d. 1965).
Deaths
References
(2000), American Experience / Streamliners / People & Events / Ralph Budd Archived 2005-03-09 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (2004), 20th century great American business leaders – Ralph Budd. Retrieved February 22, 2005.
Today in Science History: May 31. Retrieved May 27, 2005.
White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders". Railroad History. 154: 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. JSTOR 43523785. OCLC 1785797.
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