Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 25
, 1831. The sketch on page 14shows The Best Friend and a train of cars as they are supposedto have appeared on this occasion. It is amusing now, but in allprobability it was not then, to note the defense car * and the sweepat the front of the locomotive to remove obstructions. The trials of the… … The Best Friend. pressure imposed upon them when rounding a curve and had to bereplaced. On the fourteenth and fifteenth of December, 1830, thelocomotive was put through another set of trial trips and developeda speed of from sixteen to twenty-one miles per hour while pulling atrain of four cars in…
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