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,… … THREE HISTORIC LOCOMOTIVES On the left, the "Stour- bridge Lion," the first locomotive run In Amer- ica; at the right, "Gen- eral," an engine with a Civil War career. It was stolen from the Confed- erates by the "Andrews Raiders;" below, the "DeWitt Clinton," the first train operated in New York…
Railroads
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