– Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad opens from Mount Holly to Smithville, New Jersey. September 12 – Western Maryland Railroad's line from Hagerstown, Maryland, over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia, opens. September 26 – Jaffa–Jerusalem railway opened in the Ottoman Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. November events November 24 – First section of Philippine National Railways opens. November 27 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates the California Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, with the first departure from Chicago. December events December 1 – The first California Limited passenger train arrives in Chicago, Illinois, after a round trip to Los Angeles. December 30 – Canadian Pacific Railway opens the line between Payne and Eganville, Ontario; the first trains on the line are excursions from Renfrew. Unknown date events Charles L. Heisler receives a patent for the Heisler locomotive. Klien-Lindner axle patented. Construction of first petrol-engined locomotive, designed by Gottlieb Daimler and built in Esslingen, Germany. Oliver Robert Hawke Bury is appointed as chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of Brazil. Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Detroit, Michigan. Muroran Main Line on Hokkaido begins life as a colliery railway. The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway Company, later to become the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, is founded. The Richmond and Danville Railroad enters receivership. Rebuilt stations opened Madrid Atocha railway station, Spain, designed by Alberto Palacio with Gustave Eiffel. Ramses Station, Cairo, Egypt. Births October births October 26 – André Chapelon, French steam locomotive designer (d. 1978). Deaths July deaths July 24 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (b. 1810). September deaths September 7 – Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (b. 1813). December deaths December 2 – Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1836). December 28 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (b. 1810). Notes References Beck, Wayne (1957), The History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway: 1877–1996 ( 2009-10-19). Retrieved July 18, 2005. (January 16, 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10, 2005. A Short History of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad. Retrieved May 9, 2005.