emerge in the United States is the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio. Unknown date events Darjeeling Himalayan Railway takes delivery of first four Class B locomotives from Sharp Stewart and Company of Glasgow: the design will remain in service into the 21st century. Riga–Pskov railway line connected with the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway in Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire is opened for traffic. First section of Luanda Railway opens in Portuguese Angola. State Belt Railroad begins operations in San Francisco. Births Unknown date births Fred Gurley, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1944–1957 (d. 1976). Deaths October deaths October 15 – Sir Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway 1837–1864 (b. 1816). November deaths November 13 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (b. 1809). November 24 – George H. Pendleton, president of Kentucky Central Railroad 1869-1879, dies (b. 1825). December deaths December 13 – Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866–1883 (b. 1836). December 20 – William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865–1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870–1889, dies (b. 1833). References