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By month

January

• January 26 – The Philadelphia Traction Company in Pennsylvania opens a cable railway on Columbia Avenue and Master Street.
• January 29 – La Fayette Wilson Page is awarded U.S. Patent 292504  for an "Animal chaser"; a device that allows an engineer to spray water from a steam locomotive's boiler through a nozzle mounted on the front of the locomotive to clear livestock from the track.

March

• March 6 – The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad begins regular operations between Jacksonville and Palatka, Florida.

Unknown date

• The Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway is formed.