1864 in rail transport
Events
June events June 3 - The first revenue trains operate over the Central Pacific Railroad between Sacramento, California and Newcastle, California.
July events July - Samuel Marsh succeeds Nathaniel Marsh for a second term as president of the Erie Railroad. July 2 - The Northern Pacific Railway is chartered to build a northern transcontinental railroad in the United States.
October events October - Robert H. Berdell succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.
Unknown date events Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the Hudson River Railroad. Murray, Dougal and Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Milton, Pennsylvania.
Births
February births February 6 - George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad (d. 1923).
June births June 8 - Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt locomotive type (d. 1913).
Deaths
Unknown date deaths Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1784).
References Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15 2005. (April 27 2004), Herbert William Garratt. Retrieved February 9 2005.
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