1865 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1865.

Events

February events

• February 15 - The Chicago and Northwestern and Galena and Chicago Union Railroad merge.

April events

• April - The funeral train for Abraham Lincoln travels from Washington, DC to Illinois.

September events

• September 13 - Algernon S. Buford becomes president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.

Unknown date events

• The Union Pacific Railway, later to become the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and not to be confused with the Union Pacific Railroad, begins operations.
• A group of businessmen in San Francisco, California, led by Timothy Guy Phelps, found the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California.
• Erastus Corning resigns from his executive post for the New York Central.

Births

October births

• October 9 - George Hughes, Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904–1922, the London and North Western Railway 1922–1923 and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1945).

Deaths