1863 In Rail Transport

Events

January events

• January 8 - Ground is broken by the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, California, on the western half of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
• January 10 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).

September events

• September - The Kansas Pacific Railway begins construction in Kansas, building westward from Kansas City toward Colorado.

Unknown date events

• Henry Farnam retires from the presidency of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
• Jackson and Sharp Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Wilmington, Delaware.

Births

Deaths

November deaths

• November 2 - Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (b. 1826).

References

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