Events January events January 17 – Regular train service over the Prince of Wales Bridge on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway begins. February events February 3 – The Seney Syndicate meets at Seney's New York bank and organized the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (which would later become the Nickel Plate Road). February 16 – Canadian Pacific Railway incorporated. February 17 – The first train operates between Norwood, Ohio, and Lebanon, Ohio, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway. March events March 1 – The Mexican Southern Railroad is incorporated with Ulysses S. Grant, former President of the United States, as its president. March 8 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building southwestward from Kansas, reaches Deming, New Mexico. April events April 13 – The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (later known as the Nickel Plate Road) purchases the Buffalo, Cleveland & Chicago Railway April 14 – The Oregon Short Line Railroad is established to build a rail connection between Granger, Wyoming, and Huntington, Oregon. May events May 16 – The Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric tramway, is opened in Berlin by Siemens & Halske. May 19 – Tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad reach El Paso, Texas. May 28 – A. B. Rogers on his birthday discovers the pass through the Rocky Mountains that will bear his name, Rogers Pass. June events June 9 – The Canada Central Railway is merged into the Canadian Pacific Railway. June 11 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad connects to El Paso, Texas. June 14 – Ephraim Shay takes out the first patent on his Shay locomotive design. July events July 2 – Assassination of James A. Garfield: James A. Garfield, President of the United States, is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., dying on September 19 of a resultant infection. July 4 – Darjeeling Himalayan Railway opened throughout to Darjeeling, India. July 6 – Kate Shelley prevents a train with 200 passengers from going over the Honey Creek Bridge after it was washed out during a flash flood near Des Moines, Iowa. July 26 – Construction crews on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad's Alpine Tunnel, in Colorado, break through to connect both ends of the tunnel. August events August 15 – The International Exposition of Electricity opens in Paris,