| Years in rail transport |
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1817.
Events
- Approximate date – Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Pwll du near Blaenavon in South Wales. The Pwll Du Tunnel is more than a mile (2400 m) in length. Begun as a mineral adit, at this time it carries a horse-drawn double track plateway of approximately 2 ft (600 mm) gauge carrying material for Blaenavon Ironworks; next summer it will be incorporated in Thomas Hill's Tramroad.[1]
Births
March births
- March 26 - Herman Haupt, United States railroad civil engineer (d. 1905).
June births
- June 20 - Silas Seymour, chief engineer and/or consulting engineer for several railroads in New York in the mid- to late 19th century (d. 1890).
July births
- July 1 – Hugh J. Jewett, president of the Erie Railroad 1874–1884 (d. 1898).
- July 15 – John Fowler, British civil engineer (d. 1898).
October births
- October 2 – Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company (d. 1883).
- October 17 – Alexander Mitchell, president of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 1864–1887 (d. 1887).[2]
Unknown date births
- Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (d. 1877)
- Walter McQueen, Chief mechanical engineer for the Albany and Schenectady Railroad 1845–1850, Hudson River Railroad 1850–1852, and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852–1876 (d. 1893).
References
- White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders". Railroad History. 154: 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. JSTOR 43523785. OCLC 1785797.
- White, John H. Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
- ^ van Laun, John. Early Limestone Railways. London: Newcomen Society. p. 50. ISBN 0-904685-09-8.
- ^ "Mitchell, Alexander, (1817–1887)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2012-01-12.