Events
February events
- February 22 – Brooks Locomotive Works in the United States completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive.
March events
- March 17 – The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky.
- March – Central Pacific Railroad's El Gobernador , at the time the largest locomotive in the world, enters service. [1]
April events
- April 2 – Melton railway station opens in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- April 26 – The British-owned Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opens Bahía Blanca Sud railway station in Argentina.
May events
- May 1 – Nippon Railroad Line, Ueno of Tokyo to Takasaki of Gunma Prefecture route officially completed in Japan.(as predecessor of Takasaki Line)[ citation needed ]
June events
- June 11 – The Pine Bluff and Swan Lake Railway, in Arkansas (later to become part of the Cotton Belt Railroad), is incorporated. [2]
July events
- July 23 – The Iron Railroad in Ohio is reincorporated as the Iron Railway.
September events
- September 15 – Opening of first railway in Serbia, from Belgrade to Niš (243 km (151 mi)). [3]
- September 20 - Opening of the Arlberg Railway Tunnel (10.25 km (6.37 mi)), completing the Arlberg railway in Austria, the main east–west rail link through the Alps. [4] [ page needed ]
October events
- October – John King succeeds Hugh J. Jewett as president of the Erie Railroad.
November events
- November 13 – The Hagener Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft in Hagen, Germany, opens its first 2 km (1.2 mi) long horse-car line.
- November 28 – Northern Pacific Railroad establishes the town of Pasco, Washington, at the junction of its lines between Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Portland, Oregon.
December events
- December 10 – Narrow gauge Franklin and Megantic Railway opens to Kingfield, Maine. [5]
Unknown date events
- Summer - The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, completes its connection between Needles and Mojave, California.
- The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch (SFRD) is established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- The Smithsonian Institution acquires the John Bull from the Pennsylvania Railroad as the museum's first example of railroad technology.
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr. becomes president of the Union Pacific Railroad.
