This article lists events related to railtransport that occurred in 1886.
September 9 - The rail connection to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, is completed by a predecessor of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway.
November 20 - The San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway is incorporated as a Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary to build a rail connection between its namesake cities in California.
The object to the line being to facilitate the transport of ore and commercial products from the several mines and plantations in the vicinity and it is hoped that it will also be the means of further opening of the more outlying and remoter districts of Sogeri and Brown River.
In 1917, rail was purchased for a railway on the wharf.
Mail was unloaded from steamers and railed direct to the post office, where it was unloaded under the shelter of the verandah.
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