This article lists events related torail transport that occurred in 1894.

• January 1 –Bangor and Aroostook Railroad begins rail service connectingAroostook County, Maine to the United States rail network.^[1]

• April 29 – TheLake Street Elevated Railroad in Chicago is extended west from California & Lake toLaramie (52nd) Avenue.

• May 11 – 3,000 employees of thePullman Palace Car Company go onstrike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town,Pullman, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago).

• July 7 – TheWichita Falls Railway, a predecessor of theMissouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, is incorporated in Texas.^[2]
• July 15 –Central Pacific Railroad scrapsEl Gobernador, at the time the largestlocomotive in the world.^[3]

• August 4 – TheDenver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway inColorado, which purchased theDenver, South Park and Pacific Railroad five years earlier, enters receivership.
• August 7 – TheWest Highland Railway, operated by theNorth British Railway, is publicly opened toFort William, Scotland.^[4]
• August 27 –Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway opens the segment betweenFort-Coulonge andWaltham, Quebec, a line segment that was completed in February 1888.^[5]

• October –Mur Valley Railway opens in Austria with the first class U 0-6-2T.

• November –Eben B. Thomas succeedsJohn King as president of theErie Railroad.^[6]
• November 7 – TheSouthern Pacific Railroad inaugurates theSunset Expresspassenger train betweenNew Orleans andSan Francisco.^[7]

• December 22 – TheChelford rail accident in England kills 14.

• TheSouthern Railway is formed from the combination of theRichmond and Danville Railroad system and theEast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
• Stearns Manufacturing Company ofErie, Pennsylvania, starts manufacturingHeisler locomotives.
• Oliver Robert Hawke Bury moves from theChief mechanical engineer position at theGreat Western Railway of Brazil to the same position at theEntre Ríos Railway in Argentina.^[8]
• Construction of first oil-enginedlocomotive, an experimental unit designed byWilliam Dent Priestman and built by his company,Priestman Brothers ofHull, England.^[9]

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• March 2 –William H. Osborn, president ofIllinois Central Railroad 1855–1865, president ofChicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad 1875–1882, dies (b. 1820).
• September 1 –Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant toIsambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859 (b. 1818).

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