This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845. 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1844. ... This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1846. ... Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
July - James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... The Erie Railroad (AAR reporting mark ERIE) was a railroad that operated in New York State, connecting New York City with Lake Erie and several cities in upstate New York, including Binghamton, Buffalo and Dunkirk. ...
August events
August - Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.
August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... The Erie Railroad (AAR reporting mark ERIE) was a railroad that operated in New York State, connecting New York City with Lake Erie and several cities in upstate New York, including Binghamton, Buffalo and Dunkirk. ...
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William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith & Company.
Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British railway companies to persons in charge of building or maintaining locomotives. ...
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William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).
1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
References
Erie Railroad presidents (http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html). Retrieved March 15, 2005.
White, John H., Jr., (Spring1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. Dover Publications, New York, NY. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
Though the rail system was extremely slow at first and prohibitively expensive to build and run, the British were not to be dissuaded in their pursuit of non-animal driven transportation.
The most advanced mode of transportation prior to the introduction of the rail system was the horse drawn omnibus on a track, called a tram.
Some rails were still made of wood, others iron and the first trains traveled at the pace of 3.5 miles per hour, significantly slower than the horse drawn coach which traveled at a speed of 9-10 miles per hour.
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1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
January 23 - The U.S. Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
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