< Portal:Trains < Anniversaries < January 13

Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/January 13/More

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on January 13.

Category:Rail transport timelines

January 12
January 13
January 14

Events

19th century

1857 – Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381 for a railroad scale.
1864 – Samuel C. Pomeroy succeeds Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
1874 – The Bergen city council in Norway begins issuing stock for the Voss Line, with 400,000 Norwegian speciedaler (NOK 1.6 million) issued.

20th century

1928 – Henry Clay Hall leaves the Interstate Commerce Commission upon the appointment of his successor.

Births

1832 – Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (d. 1870).

Deaths

1883 – Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company, dies (b. 1817).
1931 – Kálmán Kandó, Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902, dies (b. 1869).

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.