1900 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1900.

Events

January events

• January 1 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company, Detriot, Lansing and Northern Railroad and Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.

July events

• July 19 - The first section of the Paris Métro opens.

August events

• August 14 - Charles Hayes succeeds Collis P. Huntington as president of the Southern Pacific Railroad after Huntington's death.

Unknown date events

• The Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad is renamed Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad.
• The Boston and Albany Railroad becomes a subsidiary railroad of the New York Central.
• Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, and earns a spot in American folklore.

Births

Deaths

August deaths

• August 13 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1821)

Unknown date deaths

• Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railroad (b. 1835).
• Robert S. Hughes, president of Rogers Locomotive Company 1893–1900.