1886 in rail transport
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Events
January events
- January 25 â The North Hudson County Railway in New Jersey opens the first elevated cable railway in the United States, the Hoboken Elevated.[1]
February events
- February 1 â The Mersey Railway opened to public traffic between Birkenhead and Liverpool by tunnel beneath the River Mersey, England.[2]
- February 18 - The Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad is incorporated in Mississippi.[3]
March events
- MarchâSeptember â Great Southwest Railroad Strike, a labor union strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.[4]
- March 30 â Executives from several railroad companies operating in the southern United States meet and agree to all regauge their railroads to standard gauge, 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1â2 in), by June 1.[5]
May events
- May â The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway takes control of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
July events
- July 8 â Russian emperor Alexander III establishes Railway Worker Day as a national holiday on the anniversary of the name day of Nikolai I, who first commissioned Russian railroad construction.[6]
August events
- August 17 â The 7 mile (11.3 km) long Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad is incorporated in Ottawa County, Ohio.
September events
- September 1 â Regular traffic (initially freight only) begins to pass through the Great Western Railwayâs Severn Tunnel linking southern Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.[7]
- September 9 â The rail connection to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, is completed by a predecessor of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway.
October events
- October 18 â Between 5:00 AM and 6:00 PM, the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, converts 418 miles (673 km) of track from narrow gauge to standard gauge.
November events
- November 20 â The San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway is incorporated as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary to build a rail connection between its namesake cities in California.[8]
Unknown date events
- The first refrigerator cars on the Southern Pacific Railroad enter operation.
- The Southern Pacific Railroad wins the landmark Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad which establishes equal rights under the law to corporations.
- Grande Ceinture line around Paris completed.
Births
May births
- May 4 â Henry G. Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1976).
Unknown date births
- W. Graham Claytor, president of Southern Railway (US) (d. 1971).
Deaths
July deaths
- July 24 â Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (b. 1809).[9]
December deaths
- December 28 - William Kimmel, director for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1812).
Unknown date deaths
- David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (b. 1810).