Louisville, Kentucky. October 2 – The Kirtlebridge rail crash in Scotland kills 10 people. October 10 First passenger service on the Transcaucasian Railway (later Georgian Railway) in the Russian Empire, between the capital, Tbilisi, and the Black Sea port of Poti. Shimbashi Teishajō, the original Tokyo terminus of Japan's first railway, opens. October 14 (September 12 in Tenpō calendar) – Official inauguration of first Japanese railway between Shimbashi, Tokyo (modern-day Shiodome) and Yokohama (modern-day Sakuragichō) (provisionally in June) November events November 1 – Ensign Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry Company, is incorporated in West Virginia. December events December 28 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches the border between Kansas and Colorado. Unknown date events Strasburg, Colorado – joining of rail over river completes transcontinental railway. American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works purchases the fire engine manufacturing business of Amoskeag Locomotive Works. At the age of 29, William Cornelius Van Horne becomes the youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad. Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Buffalo, New York. The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad leases North Carolina's Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Births September births September 20 – Death Valley Scotty (born Walter Edward Scott), con man who chartered the Scott Special record-breaking run on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1905. Deaths January deaths January 6 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1834). February deaths 8 February – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (b. 1799). April deaths April 9 – Erastus Corning, established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (b. 1794). August deaths August – Asa Whitney, one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway References Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History – May. Retrieved May 27, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.