Bucharest, Giurgiu, then, with passengers crossing the Danube by boat, a second train from Rustchuk to Varna, and from there by boat Espero to Constantinople. The train is officially renamed Orient Express in 1891. October 30 – Two Clan na Gael dynamite bombs explode in the London Underground. November events November 18 – Standard time zones introduced on American and Canadian railroads, as agreed by the General Time Convention. December events December 28 – Boston and Maine Railroad leases the Eastern Railroad in Massachusetts. Unknown date events The National Railway Appliance Exhibition is held in Chicago, Illinois. William Henry Vanderbilt resigns from the presidency of the New York Central system and appoints his heirs to chairmanship positions in the system's constituent railroad companies. James H. Rutter succeeds Vanderbilt as president. Franklin B. Gowen retires from the presidency of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. First electric railways in North America: experimental lines at Toronto International Exhibition and by Leo Daft in Newark, New Jersey. Philip Armour founds Armour Refrigerator Line, as a subsidiary of his meatpacking firm Armour and Company, to operate refrigerator cars that will carry Armour meat products. The Colorado Midland Railway is incorporated. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad fully acquires the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Births January births January 14 – William Valentine Wood, president of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1941-8 (d. 1959). December births December 27 – Cyrus S. Eaton, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the 1950s (d. 1979). Deaths January deaths January 13 – Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company, dies (b. 1817). July deaths July 23 – Ginery Twichell, president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad beginning in 1857, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1870–1873 (b. 1811). July 24 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847–1853, dies (b. 1809). October deaths October 4 – Henry Farnam, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 1854–1863 (b. 1803). Unknown date deaths William Swinburne, American locomotive designer and builder (b. 1805). References Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005. Depew, Chauncey M. My Memories of Eighty Years. Retrieved February 23, 2005. Franklin Gowen. Retrieved March 2, 2005. Left, Sarah, The Guardian Unlimited (January 15, 2002), Key dates in Britain's railway history. Retrieved August 4, 2005. Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society