Events

March events

• March - Construction on the Kansas Pacific reaches Kit Carson, Colorado.

June events

• June - The Denver Pacific Railway completes construction of its mainline between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

August events

• August - Construction crews on the Kansas Pacific working eastward from Denver and westward from Kansas City meet at Strasburg, Colorado.

Unknown date events

• The Southern Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad operations are merged under the Southern Pacific name.

Births

July births

• July 29 - Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1938).

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

• George S. Griggs, pioneering master mechanic of American steam locomotives (b. 1805).

References