1897 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1897.

Events

Unknown date events

• E. H. Harriman becomes a director of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Births

February births

• February 14 - Robert R. Young, chairman of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and New York Central (d. 1958).

Deaths

May deaths

• May 20 - John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (b. 1814).

October deaths

• October 19 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (b. 1831).

Unknown date deaths

• Aretas Blood, second superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works (b. 1816).