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The story of the American railroad (1915)

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 · New York, Mentor Assoc. · leaf 7

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s built in England about 1810 and was very crude and clumsy; then in 1829 came a famous trial between several types of locomotives, in which George Stephenson's Rocket won, and made the amazing speed of over twenty miles an hour. Meanwhile tramways were creeping into America. One was opened from a… … One of the latest-type electric locomotives in service on the New York Central IcterV^OOper

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