1880 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1880.

Events

February events

• February 9 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• February 12 - The Tawas and Bay County Railroad in Michigan purchases the Lake Huron and Southwestern Railway.^[1]

March events

• March 20 - The first Southern Pacific Railroad train reaches Tucson, Arizona.
• March 20 - The Miami Valley Railway is sold from receivership to the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railway.

April events

• April 15 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Albuquerque, New Mexico.

June events

• June 8 - The Miami Valley Railway is reincorporated as the Cincinnati Northern Railway.

July events

• July 2 - The first revenue trains reach Leadville, Colorado, on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad.
• July 10 - The California Southern Railroad is organized to build a rail connection between San Diego and a connection with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California.^[2]
• July 20 - Construction on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches Leadville, Colorado.

October events

• October 1 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches San Marcial, New Mexico.
• October 23 - Following its organization in July, the California Southern Railroad is officially chartered.^[2]

Unknown date events

• Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, begins construction west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Eugene V. Debs becomes the Grand Secretary of American labor organization Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
• The Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company is chartered as a holding company to acquire railroads that the Richmond and Danville Railroad itself couldn't.
• Alonzo C. Mather forms the Mather Stock Car Company to build stock cars of his own design.
• The Peninsular Car Company delivers the first refrigerator cars to Swift and Company, forming the basis of Swift Refrigerator Line.
• The Merchants Despatch enters the refrigerated transit business.
• Mexican President General Manuel González grants a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen to build the Chihuahua al Pacífico

Births

June births

• June 21 - Josiah Stamp, Chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1926-1941 (d. 1941).^[3]

Deaths

January deaths

• January 1 - Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (b. 1796).

References

• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Retrieved July 18, 2005.
• Railroad History Timeline 1880. Retrieved March 23, 2005.
• Reitwiesner, William Addams, The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne. Retrieved October 11, 2005.
• Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

1. ^ MichiganRailroads.com Railroad History Timeline: 1880. Retrieved February 12, 2006.
2. ^ ^{a b} Serpico, Philip C. (1988). Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Omni Publications. ISBN 0-88418-000-X. 
3. ^ "Sir Josiah Charles Stamp". Steam Index. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.