Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 8/More

This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 8.

Events[edit]

1853 – The Northern Indiana Railroad is formed through the merger of several smaller railroads in Indiana and Ohio.
1886 – Russian Tsar Alexander III establishes Railway Worker Day as a national holiday on the anniversary of the name day of Nikolai I, who first commissioned Russian railroad construction.^[1]
1895 – The Delagoa Bay Railway, in South Africa, opens.

1905 – Death Valley Scotty pays $5,500 in cash to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway general passenger agent J. J. Byrne to charter the Scott Special.^[2]^[3]
1908 – Construction begins on the Belt Line railway in Hull, Ontario.

1881 – Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern US railroads, is born (d. 1935).

1928 – Howard Elliott, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1903-1913, president of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad beginning in 1913, dies (b. 1860).^[4]

^ "Railway Worker Day marked in Russia". ITAR-TASS. August 6, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2006.
^ Signor, John R., compiler (2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. 12 (1): 17–29.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.
^ Associated Press (July 9, 1928). "Howard Elliott Dies At Age Of 67; Former President Of New Haven And Northern Pacific Railroads. Victim Of Heart Disease End To Career Of Half A Century Comes At Dennis, Mass.--Was Of Distinguished Family. Began As A Level Rodman. Elected President Of Northern Pacific. Member Of Railroads' War Board. Overseen At Harvard. Director In Many Companies". New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2013. Howard Elliott, former President of the New York, New Haven Hartford and the Northern Pacific railroads, died here late tonight of heart disease.