From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1857.

Events

January events

• January 13 - Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381 for a railroad scale.

February events

• February 9 - The Central Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Nebraska Territory to build a railroad from the Missouri River through the Rocky Mountains to Washington Territory.^[1]

April events

• April 11 - The Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway company (PLM) is formed in France by amalgamation of the Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) and the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon (PL) companies.

May events

• May 7 - Formal opening of Midland Railway Leicester–Hitchin line, England.

June events

• June 4 - The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.

August events

• August 30 - Opening of first railway in Argentina, from Buenos Aires to the suburb of Floresta (10 km (6 mi) of 5ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge).^[2]

October events

• October - Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad.^[3]

December events

• December 15 - George S. Griggs is awarded U.S. Patent 18,883 for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird.

Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad.
• The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars.
• Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in U.S.
• Locomotion No. 1 is placed on display in Darlington, England, the first historic steam locomotive to be publicly preserved.

Births

January births

• January 31 - George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922 (d. 1933).^[4]

November births

• November 17 - William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 (d. 1940).^[5][6]

Deaths

Unknown Date Deaths

• Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794).

April deaths

• April 20 - George Hennet, English railway contractor (b. 1799).^[7]

References

• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.  

1. ^ "An Act to Incorporate the Central Pacific Railroad Company". The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. 1858. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mal:29:./temp/~ammem_5Auu::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,scsm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mffbib,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,mfd,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhbtnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs. Retrieved 2006-05-18.  
2. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.  
3. ^ "Erie Railroad presidents". http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html. Retrieved 2005-03-15.  
4. ^ Rogers, H. C. B. (1975). G. J. Churchward: a locomotive biography. London: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-385069-3.  
5. ^ "W. B. Storey Dies" ( – ^{Scholar search}), New York Times, October 30, 1940, http://www.geocities.com/bevshul/OHS/articles/Storey1877.htm, retrieved 2005-08-19  
6. ^ Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 43–44.  
7. ^ Kay, Peter (1991). Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history. Sheffield: Platform 5. ISBN 1-87252-442-7.