Years in rail transport
Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1877.

Events

May events

  • May 1 – Opening of first railway in Burma (Myanmar), from Rangoon (Yangon) to Prome (Pyay) (257 km (160 mi) of metre gauge).[1]

July events

Burning of Union Depot, Pittsburgh, July 21–22 during Great Railroad Strike

August events

October events

November events

December events

Unknown date events

Births

March births

Unknown date births

Deaths

January deaths

March deaths

April deaths

May deaths

August deaths

September deaths

  • September 2 – Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Express, one of the first LCL freight companies in the United States, dies (b. 1804).

December events

References

  • Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
  • Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 12 and July 22, 2005.
  • 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.
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  2. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005). "This Month in Railroad History – July". Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2006.
  3. Foner, Philip S. (1977). The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. Pathfinder Press. ISBN 0-87348-828-8.
  4. Woodward, Sue; Woodward, Geoff (1996). The Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead Railway – The Nickey Line. Oakwood Press. p. 31. ISBN 0-85361-502-0.
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  7. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (December 12, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history Archived April 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 27, 2005.
  8. "Ajalugu" (in Estonian). Eesti Raudtee. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  9. Baker, Allan C. (2022). The Bolivar Railway and the Aroa Copper Mines. Industrial Railway Society.
  10. Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7. OCLC 50731001.
  11. Spencer Marks (2005), The Ames Family of North Easton, MA Archived September 30, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
  12. Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific: Significant Individuals Archived September 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
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