1877 in rail transport - Definition

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1877.

Events

July events

• July 20 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers riot in Baltimore, Maryland. Nine railroad employees are killed as the Maryland milita attempts to quell the riot.
• July 21 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.

Unknown date events

• Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles, California, cross the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona.
• William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is promoted to President of the New York Central system.

Births

Deaths

January deaths

• January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller New York railroads (b. 1794).