in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. November events November 1 – Staatsspoorwegen opens Bad Nieuweschans railway station, now the easternmost station in the Netherlands, with the first train services there. Unknown date events Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Calcutta & South Eastern Railway transferred to Indian Government. First Meyer locomotive to the patent of Jean-Jacques Meyer, L'Avenir, is built by Cail in France. Births May births May 12 – Samuel T. Bledsoe, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1933–1939 (d. 1939). May 26 – Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944). Deaths References History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 6, 2005.