Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 · New York, Mentor Assoc. · leaf 6
sent to Albert Gallatin, then secretary of the treasury, what ap- pears to be the first American description of railroads, in which he says: "A railroad consists of two pairs of parallel ways, one pair for going and the other for returning carriages; single roads, with occasional pass- ing places,… … a distance of from three and a half to five feet . . . parallel to each other; the ends of every two forming rails, being let and pinned down into a piece of timber lying across the road. . . . The carriages which travel on these roads may be of various dimensions. . . . They have low cast iron…
Railroads
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