1894 in rail transport
Events
January events
- January 1 – Bangor and Aroostook Railroad begins rail service connecting Aroostook County, Maine to the United States rail network.
April events
- April 29 – The Lake Street Elevated Railroad in Chicago is extended west from California & Lake to Laramie Avenue.
May events
- May 11 – 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company go on strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town, Pullman, Illinois.
July events
- July 7 – The Wichita Falls Railway, a predecessor of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, is incorporated in Texas.
- July 15 – Central Pacific Railroad scraps El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world.
August events
- August 4 – The Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway in Colorado, which purchased the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership.
- August 7 – The West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William, Scotland.
- August 27 – Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway opens the segment between Fort-Coulonge and Waltham, Quebec, a line segment that was completed in February 1888.
October events
- October – Mur Valley Railway opens in Austria with the first class U 0-6-2T.
November events
- November – Eben B. Thomas succeeds John King as president of the Erie Railroad.
- November 7 - The Southern Pacific Railroad inaugurates the Sunset Express passenger train between New Orleans and San Francisco.
December events
- December 22 – The Chelford rail accident in England kills 14.
Unknown date events
- The Southern Railway is formed from the combination of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
- Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, starts manufacturing Heisler locomotives.
- Oliver Robert Hawke Bury moves from the Chief mechanical engineer position at the Great Western Railway of Brazil to the same position at the Entre Ríos Railway in Argentina.
- Construction of first oil-engined locomotive, an experimental unit designed by William Dent Priestman and built by his company, Priestman Brothers of Hull, England.
Deaths
- March 2 - William H. Osborn, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1855–1865, president of Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad 1875–1882, dies.
- September 1 - Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859.