Military Railway. October 13 – The London and South Western Railway in England completes experimental installation at Grateley on its West of England main line of automatic semaphore signals controlled by track circuits and pneumatics, the first such scheme in the United Kingdom. November events November – Official start of traffic on Chinese Eastern Railway. November 7 – Memphis, Helena and Louisiana Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, is organized in Arkansas. November 12 – The Pacific Electric Railway is incorporated in California. December events December 2 – The Chicago and Indiana Air Line Railway is incorporated. December 3 – The first part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway is opened. December 12 – Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt announces the railroad's plan to enter New York City – to tunnel under the Hudson River and to build a grand station on the West Side of Manhattan, a station that would become Pennsylvania Station. December 17 – The first section of the metre gauge Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway in Switzerland is opened from Montreux to Les Avants (). December 21 – "Last spike" ceremony for the Uganda Railway (metre gauge), completed from Mombasa to Port Florence (Kisumu) on the shore of Lake Victoria. December 24 – The New Zealand Government Railways become the first major railway to place a 4-6-2 steam locomotive into service, having ordered thirteen Q class from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia. Unknown date events E. H. Harriman succeeds Charles Melville Hays as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Jacob S. Rogers, still the primary shareholder, closes Rogers Locomotive Company, but then reopens the company as Rogers Locomotive Works after the ALCO merger. American Car and Foundry (ACF) acquires Jackson and Sharp Company and Common Sense Bolster Company. George Frederick Baer becomes president of Reading Company. The Lake Shore Electric Railway is formed through the merger of the Lorain and Cleveland Railway, Sandusky and Interurban Railway and Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk Railway. Births December births December 11 – Donald Gordon, president of Canadian National Railway 1950–1966, is born (died 1969). Deaths January deaths January 6 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company meatpackers and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line refrigerator car operators (born 1832). February deaths February 9 – Fred Harvey (entrepreneur), who founded the Harvey House chain of restaurants and hotels to