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1852 in rail transport
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Events
October events
- October 10 - the first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Unknown date events
- John Cooke steps down from the superintendent position at Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works to partner with Charles Danforth in forming the new locomotive manufacturing company, Danforth, Cooke and Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
- The first 2-6-0 steam locomotives are built.
- John Edgar Thomson becomes president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Births
Unknown date births
- J. Elfreth Watkins, railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.
Deaths
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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