1854 in rail transport: Encyclopedia II - 1854 in rail transport - Events

1854 in rail transport - Events

1854 in rail transport - February events

• February 15 - Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, opens for railroad traffic.

1854 in rail transport - June events

• June - The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by steamboat.

1854 in rail transport - July events

• July 3 - The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York, opens for passenger service.

1854 in rail transport - August events

• August 20 - The first trains operate in what is now Romania between Oraviţa, Transylvania, and Baziaş, on the Danube.
• August 21 - The Great Western Railway of Canada opens its Galt Branch.

1854 in rail transport - October events

• October 20 - Kingtson Locomotive Works, the predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, completes construction of its first steam locomotive.
• October 25 - The Carillon and Grenville Railway, in Canada, opens.

1854 in rail transport - Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood purchases the steam locomotive manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works and folds it into Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Henry Farnam becomes president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

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