ore. Horses were its motivepower, even after sixty-five miles of the road were built. But in 1829Peter Cooper, of New York, built a locomotive in Baltimore which weighedone ton, and made eighteen miles an hour on a trial trip to Ellicotts Mills.In 1830 there were twenty-three miles of railway in… … Chicago as It Appeared in 1833. (See p. 27.
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