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1878 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1878.

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January events

  • January 18 - Construction on The Ghan route south of Port Augusta, Australia, begins.

    • February events

  • February 5 - The first train is operated on the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad from Renton to Newcastle.

    • May events

  • May 9 - The final segment of the Romanian railway between Varciorova in the south and Roman in the north opens.

    • June events

  • June 1 - The North British Railway's Tay Bridge across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, is opened to public traffic, making it the longest in the world at that date.

    • July events

  • July 2 - The Brooklyn, Flatbush & Coney Island Railway, original predecessor of the BMT Brighton Line, in modern Brooklyn, New York, opens to Brighton Beach on Coney Island.

    • August events

  • August 24 - The narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts passenger operations in County Antrim, the first on the Irish 3 ft narrow gauge.

    • December events

  • December 4 - The first Shay locomotive is completed for the 3-foot narrow gauge Alleyton and Big Lake Railroad of Everett Township, Michigan.

    • Unknown date events

  • Fred Harvey enters a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to build and operate the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels that will serve the railroad's passengers.
  • The Richmond and Danville Railroad acquires the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
  • The Canadian Engine and Machinery Company is reorganized after a bankruptcy as the Canadian Locomotive and Engine Company.
  • The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, lessee of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, declares bankruptcy.

    • March births

  • March 2 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1944).

    • Unknown date births

  • Angus Daniel McDonald, president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1932–1941 (d. 1941).

    • March deaths

  • March 29 - Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (b. 1813).

    • June deaths

  • June 27 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad," dies (b. 1800).

    • October deaths

  • October 19 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, designer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Thomas Viaduct (still in use today), dies (b. 1806).

    • Unknown date deaths

  • Daniel McCallum, General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855-1858 (b. 1815).

    • References

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