1832 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1832.

Events

May events

May 23 – The Festiniog Railway Company Incorporated by Act of Parliament to build a railway from Festiniog to Portmadoc in North Wales for the carriage of slate and other minerals.

June events

June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road, today the oldest short-line railroad in the United States, is incorporated.

July events

July 25 – A cable snaps on an incline of the Granite Railway causing the first rail transport related fatality in the United States.

November events

November 23 – After assembling Delaware, Matthias W. Baldwin builds his first entirely new steam locomotive, named Old Ironsides.^[1]
November 26 – The New York and Harlem Railroad opens in New York City.

December events

December 5 – First rail carriage of United States mail, to West Chester, Pennsylvania, according to some sources.^[2]

Unknown date events

Matthias W. Baldwin assembles an English-built steam locomotive, the Delaware, for the Newcastle and Frenchtown Railroad; this is the first railroad locomotive that Baldwin works on.
The Jefferson Works in Paterson, New Jersey, is reorganized as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (later to become Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works).
Ross Winans patents the 8-wheel railroad car, but the patent is soon disputed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad who call on Gridley Bryant as an expert witness.

Births

January births

January 13 – Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (suicide 1870).

May births

May 16 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line (d. 1901).

December births

December 6 – Thaddeus C. Pound, president of Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (d. 1914).^[3]

Deaths

July births

July 25 – Franz Josef Gerstner, Austrian physicist and pioneering railway engineer (b 1756).

November deaths

November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence (United States) and co-founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1737).

References

Mitchell, Frank (March 1999), M. W. Baldwin. Retrieved February 15, 2005.
Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 22, 2005.

^ Westing, Fred (1966). The Locomotives that Baldwin Built. New York: Bonanza Books. p. 14.
^ U.S. Post Office Department (1885). History of the Railway Mail Service: a chapter in the history of postal affairs in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 28.
^ Easton, Larry E. (Summer 2007). "The Wisconsin Central in Eau Claire". The Soo. 29 (3). The Soo Line Historical and Technical Society: 9–43. ISSN 0733-5296.