1884 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 22 - Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive.

March events

* March 17 - The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky.
* March - Central Pacific Railroad's "El Gobernador", at the time the largest locomotive in the world, enters service. [cite book| author=Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A.| title=Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium| publisher=Shade Tree Books| year=1987| id=ISBN 0-930742-12-5]

June events

* June 11 - The Pine Bluff and Swan Lake Railway, in Arkansas (later to become part of the Cotton Belt Railroad), is incorporated. [Beck, Wayne, (August 21, 1998), " [http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html The History of the Cotton Belt Railroad] ". Retrieved June 10, 2005.]

July events

* July 23 - The Iron Railroad in Ohio is reincorporated as the Iron Railway.

September events

* September 20 - Opening of the Arlbergtunnel (km to mi|10.25|abbr=yes), completing the Arlberg railway in Austria, the main east–west rail link through the Alps. [cite book|last=Marshall|first=John|title=The Guinness Railway Book|year=1989|publisher=Guinness|location=Enfield|isbn=0-85112-359-7]

October events

* October - John King succeeds Hugh J. Jewett as president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

* November 13 - The Hagener Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft in Hagen, Germany, opens its first 2 km (1.2 mile) long horse-car line.
* November 28 - Northern Pacific Railroad establishes the town of Pasco, Washington, at the junction of its lines between Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Portland, Oregon.

Unknown date events

* Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, completes its connection between Needles and Mojave, California.
* The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch (SFRD) is established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
* The Smithsonian Institution acquires the "John Bull" from the Pennsylvania Railroad as the museum's first example of railroad technology.
* Charles Francis Adams, Jr. becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Births

July births

* July 6 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (d. 1970).

December births

* December 9 - Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1954).

Deaths

May deaths

* May 17 - George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (b. 1808).

September deaths

* September 26 - John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1858– (b. 1820).

Unknown date deaths

* Wendel Bollman, designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (b. 1814).

References

* " [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/john-work-garrett/ Biography of John Work Garrett] ". Retrieved March 2 2005.
* HistoryLink (2005), " [http://www.historylink.org/this_week/index.cfm This week in state and local history] ". Retrieved November 28 2005.
* " [http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents] ". Retrieved March 15 2005.
* " [http://www.trainweb.org/panama/totten.html George Muirson Totten] ". Retrieved February 9 2005
* Morris, J. C. (1902), " [http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1840.html Ohio Railway Report] ". Retrieved July 19 2005.
* Santa Fe Railroad (1945), "Along Your Way", Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
* Soylent Communications (2005), " [http://www.nndb.com/people/488/000082242/ Charles Francis Adams, Jr.] ". Retrieved February 21 2005.
* White, John H, Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, "Railroad History", 154, p. 9-15.