1896, 1897, 1898

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

Contents

1 Events 1.1 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 February births 3 Deaths 3.1 May deaths 3.2 October deaths 3.3 Unknown date deaths

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).