The history of the first locomotives in America : from the original documents, and the testimony of living witnesses (1874)
Brown, William H. (William Henry), 1808-1883 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 132
een miles an hour; the grades were ascended with comparativeease; the day was fine, the company in the highest spirits, andsome excited gentlemen of the party pulled out memorandum-books,and when at the highest speed, which was eighteen miles an hour,wrote their names and some connected sentences,… … The trial took place on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on the 28th August, 1830. The sketch represents the moment the Engine overtook and passed the Horse-Car, the passengers filled with excitement. (See Mr. Latrobes description, page 116.) LATROBES DESCRIPTION. 119 from the Mills, a distance of…
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