1862 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1862.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 1 - Maj. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson marches his troops northward with the objective of disrupting traffic on the B&O Railroad and C&O Canal; the Battle of Hancock is unsuccessful and the Confederate Army withdraws.
[edit] April events
- April 12 - Andrew's Raiders steal The General and drive it north toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, with Western and Atlantic Railroad conductor William Fuller chasing it in the Great Locomotive Chase.
[edit] May events
- May 6 - the bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States House of Representatives.
[edit] June events
- June 20 - the bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States Senate.
[edit] July events
- July 1 - the Pacific Railroad Act is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
- July 1 - the Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.
- July 28 - The first railway post office car in North America was operated over the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad; the mail was transferred to stagecoach in St. Joseph, Missouri, for the rest of the journey to California.[1]
- July 29 - the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company began streetcar operations on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
[edit] September events
- September 1 - James Staat Forbes became General Manager of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway
[edit] November events
[edit] Unknown date events
- Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the New York and Harlem Railroad.
- Eastern Counties Railway changed its name to Great Eastern Railway
- Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn opens Essen Hauptbahnhof station
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Unknown date deaths
- Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (b. 1822).
- Septimus Norris, steam locomotive designer often credited as designing the first 4-6-0 (b. 1818).
[edit] References
- Cooper, Bruce C., CPRR.org (2004), Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Retrieved July 28, 2005.
