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This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 1852 .

Contents

1 Events 1.1 October 1.2 Unknown date 2 Births 2.1 Unknown date 3 Deaths

Events

October

• October 10 - the first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Unknown date

• John Cooke steps down from the superintendent position at Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works to partner with Charles Danforth in forming the new locomotive manufacturing company, Danforth, Cooke and Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
• The first 2-6-0 steam locomotives are built.

Births

Unknown date

• J. Elfreth Watkins, railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including John Bull.

Deaths