quarries ofQuincy to tide-water. Horses were used as the motive power. Itwas the germ, however, of a mighty movement in this country. Thefirst railway in America, for passengers and traffic, — the Baltimore& Ohio, — was chartered by the Maryland Legislature in March,1827. The capital stock… … !8 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS the road were built. But in 1829, Peter Cooper, of New York, builta locomotive in Baltimore, which weighed one ton, and made eight-een miles an hour on a trial trip to EllicottsMills. In 1830 there were twenty-three milesof railway in the United States, which wasincreased…
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