1832 in rail transport
# 1832 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1832.

## Events

### May events

* May 23 – The Festiniog Railway Company Incorporated by Act of Parliament to build a railway from Festiniog to Portmadoc in North Wales for the carriage of slate and other minerals.

### June events

* June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road, today the oldest short-line railroad in the United States, is incorporated.

### July events

* July 25 – A cable snaps on an incline of the Granite Railway causing the first rail transport related fatality in the United States.

### November events

* November 23 – After assembling Delaware, Matthias W. Baldwin builds his first entirely new steam locomotive, named Old Ironsides.
* November 26 – The New York and Harlem Railroad opens in New York City.

### December events

* December 5 – First rail carriage of United States mail, to West Chester, Pennsylvania, according to some sources.

### Unknown date events

* Matthias W. Baldwin assembles an English-built steam locomotive, the Delaware, for the Newcastle and Frenchtown Railroad; this is the first railroad locomotive that Baldwin works on.
* The Jefferson Works in Paterson, New Jersey, is reorganized as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (later to become Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works).
* Ross Winans patents the 8-wheel railroad car, but the patent is soon disputed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad who call on Gridley Bryant as an expert witness.

## Births

### January births

* January 13 – Zerah Colburn, locomotive designer and railroad author (suicide 1870).

### May births

* May 16 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line (d. 1901).

### December births

* December 6 – Thaddeus C. Pound, president of Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (d. 1914).

## Deaths

### July births

* July 25 – Franz Josef Gerstner, Austrian physicist and pioneering railway engineer (b 1756).

### November deaths

* November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence (United States) and co-founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1737).
