1894 in rail transport

Events

May events

* May 11 - 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company go on strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town, Pullman, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago, Illinois).

July events

* July 7 - The Wichita Falls Railway, a predecessor of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, is incorporated in Texas. [cite web|author=Good, Mike|date=May 19 1999|url=http://tacnet.missouri.org/~mgood/clintonrr/ch_mkt.html|title=Corporate History: Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway|accessdate=2005-07-07]
* July 15 - Central Pacific Railroad scraps "El Gobernador", at the time the largest locomotive in the world. [cite book| author=Diebert, Timothy S. and Strapac, Joseph A.|title=Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium|publisher=Shade Tree Books|year=1987|isbn=0-930742-12-5]

August events

* August 4 - The Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway in Colorado, which purchased the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership.
* August 7 - The West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William, Scotland. [cite book|author=Thomas, John|title=The West Highland Railway|date=1965|publisher=David & Charles|location=Dawlish]
* August 27 - Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway opens the segment between Fort-Coulonge and Waltham, Quebec, a line segment that was completed in February 1888.cite web|title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history|url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages|date=2006-07-30|accessdate=2006-08-25]

November events

* November - Eben B. Thomas succeeds John King as president of the Erie Railroad. [cite web|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=2005-03-15]

Unknown date events

* The Southern Railway is formed from the combination of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
* Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, starts manufacturing Heisler locomotives.
* Oliver Robert Hawke Bury moves from the Chief mechanical engineer position at the Great Western Railway of Brazil to the same position at the Entre Rios Railway in Argentina.
* Construction of first oil-engined locomotive, an experimental unit designed by William Dent Priestman and built by his company, Priestman Brothers of Hull, England. [cite book|author=Webb, Brian|title=The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894-1940|date=1973|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-6115-5]

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Deaths

References

* (January 16 2005), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/managers.htm Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers] ". Retrieved February 10 2005.