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This article lists events related to
rail transport that occurred in 1869.
Events
January events
February events
March events
April events
May events
June events
June 1 – The
Merchants Despatch is reformed as a joint stock trading company, with ownership divided among the
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway (CCC&I), the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway , and the
New York Central Railroad (NYC), all part of the
Cornelius Vanderbilt rail empire.
June 17 – The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad , building westward from
Topeka , reaches
Carbondale, Kansas .
July events
July 3
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad subsidiary
Kansas City and Cameron Railroad opens the
Hannibal Bridge , the first railroad bridge across the
Missouri River , connecting its namesake cities.
Completion of the
Mount Washington Cog Railway in
New Hampshire ,
U.S. , the world's first
mountain
rack railway .
[7]
Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway line in the
Grand Duchy of Finland completed from the
Finland Station in
Saint Petersburg to
Zelenogorsk . Stations opened at
Lanskaya ,
Udelnaya ,
Ozerki ,
Pargolovo ,
Pesochny ,
Levashovo ,
Beloostrov ,
Solnechnoye ,
Repino ,
Komarovo and
Zelenogorsk .
[8]
August events
September events
October events
November events
December events
Unknown date events
The
New York State Legislature authorised the merger of railroads already owned by
Cornelius Vanderbilt into the
New York Central , including the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway , the
Canada Southern Railroad and the
Michigan Central Railroad into the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad .
William Henry Vanderbilt , son of
Cornelius Vanderbilt , is promoted to Vice President of the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad .
The first railroad built in
New Jersey , the
Camden and Amboy Railroad , is merged into the
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company .
Wells and French Company , later to become part of
American Car and Foundry , is founded in
Chicago, Illinois .
Construction begins on the central pontifical
railroad station in
Rome ,
Italy .
Births
June births
July births
August births
November births
Deaths
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(July 2010 )
References
^ Saxena, R. P. (2008).
"Indian Railway History Time Line" . Archived from
the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2009-12-23 .
^
Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book . Enfield: Guinness Books.
ISBN
0-8511-2359-7 .
OCLC
24175552 .
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"Railroad History Time Line 1860" . Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum . Archived from
the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 8 April 2013 .
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New York Central Railroad (1913).
"History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company" . 1913 Annual Report of The New York Central Railroad System . Archived from
the original on 29 March 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2006 .
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"PRR Chronology 1869" (PDF) . Pennsylvania Railroad Historical and Technical Society. June 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2013 .
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"Ceremony at "Wedding of the Rails," May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah" .
World Digital Library . 1869-05-10. Retrieved 2013-07-20 .
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"The Mount Washington Cog Railway" .
Archived from the original on 19 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01 .
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"\" . The Illustrated Newspaper (in Russian) (# 32): 97. 1869. Retrieved 14 February 2009 .
^
Lines in Lancashire: History of the West Coast Main line Virgin Trains 2004.
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"Hale Holden" . Railway Age Gazette . 57 (10): 428. September 4, 1914. Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
^ Ingham, John N. (1983).
Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders . Vol. 2. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 594–5.
ISBN
0-313-23908-8 . Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
^ Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1939.
Further reading
Association of American Railroads (January 2005),
This Month in Railroad History – January . Retrieved May 23, 2005.
Baker Library Historical Collections,
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879–1896 . Retrieved May 10, 2005.
New York Central Railroad (1913), Annual Report ,
History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company . Retrieved September 21, 2005.
Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way , Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
Smith, Ivan (1998),
Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History (1850– 1899) . Retrieved August 16, 2005.
Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board,
STW historical figures / Horatio Brooks . Retrieved February 9, 2005.
Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe . Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. p. 42.