Events March events March – John Adams Dix succeeds Jay Gould as president of the Erie Railroad. March 1 – Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company, is incorporated in Pennsylvania. March 5 – George Westinghouse receives a patent for the Westinghouse air brake. March 11 – The ¾ mile (1 km) long Bristol Harbour Railway opens from the junction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway and Great Western Railway at Temple Meads to the Floating Harbour in Bristol. April events April 1 – The Midland Railway (Great Britain) admits Third class passengers to all trains, a move which other British railway companies follow. April 6 – Wallkill Valley Railroad opens Rosendale Trestle, at this time the highest bridge in the United States, to rail traffic in Rosendale, New York. May events May 1 – The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway, in England, opens. May 1 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad begins construction westward from Newton, Kansas, toward Colorado. May 18 – The Delaware and Raritan Canal, New Jersey Railroad and the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey, are merged into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company. May 28 – The Columbus and Toledo Railroad is incorporated. June events June 12 – First section of railway in Japan opens, from Yokohama to Shinagawa, Tokyo. June 17 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Hutchinson. July events July – Peter H. Watson succeeds John A. Dix as president of the Erie Railroad. July 2 – Baltimore and Potomac Railroad opens its line from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., via Huntington. August events August 5 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Great Bend. August 12 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Larned. September events September 5 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Dodge City, Kansas. September 13 – The first section of the planned railroad connection between Vârciorova and Roman, Romania, opens, connecting Piteşti, Bucharest, Galaţi and Roman. October events October 1 The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway is incorporated. The first meeting of the Time Table Conventions, an organization that later became the American Railway Association, is held in