Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 461
r 1830.Peter Cooper called his engine the TomThumb, and it looked for all the world like ahuge beer-bottle out for an airing on a rudesort of a truck, as you will see by the picture rying of freight, and the man who first sug-gested the idea that they might also be madeto carry people was advised… … THE ST. LOU of it as it stands by the St. Louis, the lar-gest railroad-engine ever built. The St. Louis weighs two hundred and forty times as muchas the Tom Thumb. Peter Cooper built his little engine to run onthe newly constructed Baltimore and OhioRailroad, and on one of its trips a horse ran…
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