Coast Line Railroad. First successful class of 2-8-2 steam locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia for the gauge Nippon Railway of Japan (hence the class name Mikado). The Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway begins full service between Ottawa, Ontario and Parry Sound, Ontario. Narrow gauge Ferrocarril Cazadero la Torre y Tepetongo begins passenger service to Nado, Estado de México. Narrow gauge ( ) railway in Estonia is built to connect Viljandi with the Valga–Pärnu line in Mõisaküla. Later the line is extended from Viljandi to Paide and then to Reval (Tallinn) harbour. Births February births February 14 – Robert R. Young, chairman of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and New York Central (d. 1958). November births November 16 – Harold W. Burtness, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1946–1948, is born (d. 1978). Unknown date births Wayne A. Johnston, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1945–1966 (d. 1967). Deaths April deaths April 3 – Albert Fink, German American civil engineer and railroad manager (b. 1827). May deaths May 20 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (b. 1814). July deaths July 17 – Charles Frederick Crocker, son of Charles Crocker of California's Big Four railroaders, president of San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad, vice president of Southern Pacific Railroad, dies (b. 1854). September deaths September 14 – Carl Abraham Pihl, Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) 1865–1897 (b. 1825). October deaths October 19 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (b. 1831). December deaths December 1 – William Dudley Chipley, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873–1876 (b. 1840). Unknown date deaths Aretas Blood, second superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works (b. 1816). References Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: August. Retrieved August 16, 2005.