1863 in rail transport
Events
January events January 8 - Ground is broken by the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, California, on the western half of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America. January 10 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
September events September - The Kansas Pacific Railway begins construction in Kansas, building westward from Kansas City toward Colorado.
Unknown date events Henry Farnam retires from the presidency of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Jackson and Sharp Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Wilmington, Delaware.
Births
Deaths
November deaths November 2 - Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (b. 1826).
References Virtual American Biographies - Henry Farnam. Retrieved March 1 2005.
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