1892 in rail transport

Events

March events

* March 1 - Japan's Mito Railway is consolidated into the Japanese National Railways.

April events

* April 17 - Canada Atlantic Railway leases the Central Counties Railway, which connected Glen Robertson and Hawkesbury, Ontario. [cite web| url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm| title=Significant dates in Ottawa railway history| work=Colin Churcher's Railway Pages| date=April 11 2006| accessmonthday=16 April | accessyear=2006 ]

May events

* May 20 - The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London's Paddington station.

June events

* June 6 - The Chicago 'L' begins operations. The South Side Elevated Railroad opens for traffic between downtown Chicago and 39th Street (3.6 miles/5.8 km) using steam locomotives.
* June 7 - Homer Plessy is arrested when he refuses to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
* June 9 - Two trains collide at Esholt Junction in West Yorkshire, England, on what is now the Wharfedale Line. Five passengers are killed, twenty-six more and three crew are injured. The cause was unsafe procedures and a signal obscured by vegetation.

* June 17 - Brienz Rothorn Bahn, in Switzerland, opens.

July events

* July 18 - The Pine Bluff, Monroe and New Orleans Railroad is reorganized as the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railroad (a Cotton Belt predecessor).

September events

* September 12 - Western Maryland Railroad's line from Hagerstown, Maryland, over the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia, opens. [cite journal| journal=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin| author=Hicks, W. Raymond| title=The Cumberland Extension - Western Maryland Railroad Company| pages=p 26| month=April| year=1970| issue=122 ]

November events

* November 27 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the "California Limited" passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, with the first departure from Chicago.

December events

* December 1 - The first "California Limited" passenger train arrives in Chicago, Illinois, after a round trip to Los Angeles, California.
* December 30 - Canadian Pacific Railway opens the line between Payne and Eganville, Ontario; the first trains on the line are excursions from Renfrew.Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12 2005) [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm Significant dates in Ottawa railway history] . Retrieved December 27 2005.]

Unknown date events

* Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive.
* The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership.
* Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil.
* Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
* The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, is founded.

Births

Deaths

July deaths

* July 24 - Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (b. 1810).

eptember deaths

* September 7 - Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813).

December deaths

* December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836).

Unknown date deaths

* Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the "John Bull" (b. 1810).

References

* Beck, Wayne (1957), " [http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8199/c_belt.html The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 1877-1996] ". Retrieved July 18 2005.
* (January 16 2005), " [http://www.steamindex.com/people/managers.htm Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers] ". Retrieved February 10 2005.
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* " [http://www.i2k.com/~dpierce/LSI/history.html A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad] ". Retrieved May 9 2005.