1845 in rail transport explained

Events

March events

• March 19  - Boston and Maine Railroad Extension, which was incorporated a dispute with the Boston and Lowell Railroad over trackage rights rates in Massachusetts, is merged into Boston and Maine Railroad.

July events

• July  - James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
• July 1  - Boston and Maine Railroad opens the extension over the former Boston and Maine Railroad Extension line between Wilmington and Boston.
• July 21  - An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament having sanctioned 2816miles of new construction.^[1]

August events

• August  - Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.

October events

• October 8  - The Montour Iron Works of Danville rolled the first iron T-rails in Pennsylvania.^[2]
• October 22  - First section of the Württemberg Central Railway opens, between Cannstatt und Untertürkheim.

Unknown date events

• William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith and Company.
• Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.

Births

June births

• June 24  - Georges Nagelmackers, Belgian founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains (d. 1905).

September births

• September 17  - Calvin S. Brice, president of Lake Erie and Western Railroad, builder of Nickel Plate Road (d. 1898).

November births

• November 18  - Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway in 1868 and Brooklyn Rapid Transit beginning in 1902 (d. 1930).^[3]

Deaths

January deaths

• January 14  - William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).

References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lewin, Henry Grote. The Railway Mania and its aftermath, 1845–1852. 1936. Railway Gazette. London.
2. https://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-1A8 Explore Pennsylvania History
3. Book: Busbey, T. Addison. The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1906. Chicago, Illinois. Railway Age. 1906. 666.