This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the first steam railroad in America - the United States. The image is from a painting in the possession of the Connecticut Historical Society (in the 1870s), and it represents the first railway train in America on its trial trip (1831), in which sixteen persons took part, who were then thought not a little courageous. Here we see that the carriages were regular stage coaches. This illustration proves that the Americans set out with the same style of carriages; but North America, as compared with the Old World, is par excellence the country of rapi
This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the first steam railroad in America - the United States. The image is from a painting in the possession of the Connecticut Historical Society (in the 1870s), and it represents the first railway train in America on its trial trip (1831), in which sixteen persons took part, who were then thought not a little courageous. Here we see that the carriages were regular stage coaches. This illustration proves that the Americans set out with the same style of carriages; but North America, as compared with the Old World, is par excellence the country of rapid developments, and there carriages, or cars, as our Transatlantic cousins call them, have for a long time been made with numerous improvements, and in forms more in harmony with the railway system.
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