1836 in rail transport - Definition

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1836.

Events

January events

• January 16 - The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest portion of what is to become the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, is chartered.

Unknown date events

• The Louisa Railroad of Louisa County, Virginia, an early predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins construction.

Births

May births

• May 21 - Francis William Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (d. 1906).
• May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1892).

September births

• September 17 - William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (d. 1909).

Deaths

January deaths

• January 7 - John Molson, established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada (b. 1763).