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Events

April events

• April 24 - The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn, the first major railway line to be built between important cities in Germany, begins passenger operations.

April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ...

August events

• August 24 - Queen Marie Amélie and King Louis-Philippe officially open the Paris-Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway line.

August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... Maria Amelia Teresa of the Two Sicilies (26 April 1782-24 March 1866) was the wife of Louis Philippe, King of the French. ... Louis-Philippe, King of the French (October 6, 1773 – August 26, 1850) reigned as the Orléanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ...   City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area... Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. ...

October events

• October 30 - The first Russian railroad, between St. Petersburg and Zarskoje Selo with a length of 23 km (14 miles), opens. The locomotive for the new railway was built by Englishman Timothy Hackworth using a gauge of 1829 mm (6 ft). Because the track connected the pleasure sites of the nobility, it was called "the train to the pub."

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... km redirects here. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... Timothy Hackworth (December 22, 1786 – July 7, 1850) was a steam locomotive mechanical engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and worked with George Stephenson on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. ... Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... A foot (plural: feet) is any of several old units of distance or length, measuring around a quarter to a third of a meter. ...

Unknown date events

• Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor receives the company's first order for new steam locomotives; the order for two locomotives is placed by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and is intended to be the beginning of the railroad's locomotive fleet.

• First Sugar-Railroad in Cuba Güines - La Habana opened.

In the 19th century, Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, based in Paterson, New Jersey, built more than 6,000 railroad steam locomotives for railroads around the world including nearly every railroad in the United States between 1837 and 1905. ... Scheme of steam locomotive. ... The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was the first railroad to be built and operated in the U.S. state of Ohio. ... This article is about the Cuban city. ...

Births

April births

• April 17 - J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (d. 1913).

April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... J. P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan I (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker, who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation. ... Financier (IPA: /ˌfi nãn ˈsjei/) is an elegant term for a person who handles large sums of money, usually involving money lending, financing projects, large-scale investing, or large-scale money management. ... The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

May births

• May 23 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the mallet locomotive type (d. 1919).

May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... Jules T. Anatole Mallet (23 May 1837 - 10 October 1919) was a Swiss mechanical engineer, who was the inventor of the Mallet locomotive. ... A typical European Mallet type, a narrow gauge 0-4-4-2 tank locomotive for a mountain railway (in this case, the RhB in Switzerland). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

September births

• September 26 - Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893.

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ... Allen Manvel (born September 26, 1837) was the eleventh president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. ... The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AAR reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the largest railroads in the United States. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Unknown date births

• William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (d. 1914)

William Barstow Strong (1837 – 1914) served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from 1881 to 1889. ... The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AAR reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the largest railroads in the United States. ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Deaths

References

• Infoplease.com (2005), William Barstow Strong. Retrieved June 2, 2005.
• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. p. 196.
• White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.