1892 in rail transport
Events
May events May 20 - The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London's Paddington station.
Unknown date events Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive. The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership. Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil. Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
Births
Deaths
September deaths September 7 - Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813).
December deaths December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836).
Unknown date deaths Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (b. 1810).
References (January 16 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10 2005.
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