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By month

January

• January 2 – California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe, begins regular passenger and freight service between its National City terminus and Fallbrook Junction, just north of Oceanside, California.
• January 9 – The first train from Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway, departs for Dayton, Ohio.

February

• February 21 – The Port Huron and Northwestern Railroad opens its line connecting Marlette and East Saginaw, Michigan.

March

• March 6 – The Norfolk Terminal Company is incorporated in Virginia as the merger of the Norfolk Terminal and the original Norfolk and Western Railroad.

December

• December 19 – Building from Denver, Colorado, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks reach the Utah border where the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad picks up construction in Utah.
• December 28 – The Ithaca and Alma Railroad completes construction of its line connecting its namesake cities in Michigan.

Unknown date

• The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad in Maine begins operations