1890 in rail transport

Years in rail transport

* 1889 in rail transport
* 1890 in rail transport
* 1891 in rail transport

Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1890.

## Events

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### January events

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* January 28 – Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad acquires a section of the McKeesport and Belle Vernon Railroad around Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania.[1]

### February events

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* February 22 – Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Railway (the "Big Four Railroad") gains control of the Peoria & Eastern Railway in southern Illinois.[2]

Forth Bridge

### March events

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* March – Émile Zola's psychological novel with a railway setting, La Bête Humaine, is published in book form.
* March 4 – The Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth in Scotland is officially opened and its contractor, William Arrol, is knighted.[3]

### May events

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* May 9 – Boston & Maine Railroad ends its lease of the Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts by purchasing it.
* May 20 – Wutach Valley Railway opened to provide a strategic route inside Germany without crossing the Swiss border.

### July events

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* July 23 – Narrow gauge Kennebec Central Railroad opens to Togus, Maine.[4]

### August events

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* August 18 – The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad, a predecessor of Kansas City Southern Railway, begins operations between Kansas City and Argentine.[5]
* August 19 – Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary Ohio Valley Railway reorganized as the Pittsburg, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad.
* August 19 – In Quincy, Massachusetts, a jack used to level rails was left on the tracks. A passenger train then collided with it causing a derailment. Twenty-four people were killed due to the impact of the collision and through scalding.[6]

### November events

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City & South London Railway train, from Illustrated London News, 1890

* November 4 – Official opening of the City & South London Railway, earliest constituent of the Northern line of the London Underground and the first real deep-level electrified "tube" railway in the world.[7][page needed]
* November 9 – First section of metre gauge Chemin de fer du Vivarais in southern France opens, using Mallet locomotives.[8]
* November 10 – Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits begins to operate the Rome Express train from Calais Maritime station via Paris and the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
* November 26 – The Mito Line in Japan operates its first freight trains.

### Unknown date events

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* First Class О 0-8-0 steam locomotive built for service in Russia. 9129 locomotives of this type will be built up to 1928, making it the country's most numerous.[9]
* Klien-Lindner axle patented.
* Hugh J. Chisholm forms the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway to link Androscoggin River papermills to the Maine Central Railroad.
* Leland Stanford begins his term as Chairman of the Executive Committee for Southern Pacific.
* Charles Francis Adams, Jr. steps down from the presidency of the Union Pacific.

## Births

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### August births

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* August 16 – CP Couch, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1939–1941 (d. 1955).

## Deaths

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### July deaths

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* July 15 – Silas Seymour, chief engineer and/or consulting engineer for several railroads in New York in the mid- to late 19th century (b. 1817).

### September deaths

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* September 30 – Frederick Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879–1881 (b. 1823).

## References

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1. ^ Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Society (December 7, 2004). "History of the P&LE". Archived from the original on May 2, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
2. ^ (August 31, 2005), History of Champaign-Urbana Transportation Inc.- Part 3: Railroads. Retrieved February 22, 2006.
3. ^ Thomas, John (1975). The North British Railway, vol. 2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6699-8.
4. ^ Jones, Robert C. (1999). Two Feet to Togus. Evergreen Press. p. 18\. ISBN 0-9667264-1-3.
5. ^ Kansas City Southern Historical Society. "The Kansas City Southern Lines". Archived from the original on 28 August 2005. Retrieved 2005-08-15.
6. ^ "Quincy's Two Great Railroad Disasters" (PDF). Quincy History. Quincy, MA. 1994. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
7. ^ Gillham, John C. (1988). The Age of the Electric Train: Electric Trains in Britain since 1883. London: Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 0-7110-1392-6.
8. ^ Joy, David (2012). Engines that Bend: narrow gauge articulated locomotives. Southend: Atlantic Publishers. p. 28\. ISBN 978-1-902827-23-0.
9. ^ Леонид МАКАРОВ (March 2005). ОВЕЧКА. Историческая серия "Техники Молодежи" (in Russian). ФОТОМАГИСТРАЛЬ. Retrieved 2009-03-31.

* Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31, 1902), Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved August 16, 2005.