Events

April events

• April 13 - Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his younger brother Mantis James Van Sweringen purchase a 75% controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road from William Kissam Vanderbilt for 8.5 million dollars.

September events

• September 30 - Construction is completed on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City.

Unknown date events

• The Pennsylvania Railroad adopts the motto "the Standard Railroad of the World".
• The first I1s 2-10-0 "Decapod" locomotive is completed.
• The Pennsylvania Railroad's first A5s 0-4-0 and B6sb switching locomotives enter service.
• Joel Coffin purchases Lima Locomotive Corporation; the company is renamed Lima Locomotive Works.

Births

Unknown date births

• Benjamin F. Biaggini , president of the Southern Pacific Company 1964–1976.

Deaths

May deaths

• May 29 - James J. Hill, American financier who gained control of the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway (b. 1838).

References

• White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.