January 2 in rail transport

19th century

• 1854 – Opening of the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway.
• 1882 – Building northward from San Diego, California Southern Railroad tracks reach Fallbrook, California.
• 1893 – Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America. See Railroad chronometers

20th century

21st century

• 2002 – The Iowa Interstate Railroad operates its first unit coal train over the former Milwaukee Road mainline through Amana, Iowa.

Births

• 1826 – Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911).
• 1836 – Fred T. Perris, Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad (d. 1916).
• 1830 – Henry Morrison Flagler, visionary and builder of the Florida East Coast Railway (d. 1913).

References

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