. The development of the American rail and track . BOTTOM V/EWFiji. Paiext Concave Rail foil Wagons. (From model hi th. U. S. National Museum.) Josiah Woodhouse, was fastened to transverse cross ties by bolts slippedinto slits through the base. Among the most interesting relics in the collection are two of thecast tram rails, 3 feet long, from the track from Penydarren Works toGlamorgan, near Aberdare Junction, Wales. These rails were a. por-tion of the original track upon which Trevithicks first locomotive, tohelp man, ran in 1801, and was a gift of J. W. Widdowson, Esq., Lon-d
. The development of the American rail and track . BOTTOM V/EWFiji. Paiext Concave Rail foil Wagons. (From model hi th. U. S. National Museum.) Josiah Woodhouse, was fastened to transverse cross ties by bolts slippedinto slits through the base. Among the most interesting relics in the collection are two of thecast tram rails, 3 feet long, from the track from Penydarren Works toGlamorgan, near Aberdare Junction, Wales. These rails were a. por-tion of the original track upon which Trevithicks first locomotive, tohelp man, ran in 1801, and was a gift of J. W. Widdowson, Esq., Lon-don and Northwestern Railway of England, to the U. S. National DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN RAIL AND TRACK. 659 i r Museum. A drawing of these rails with the stone supports, one of which is also in the collection, is shown in Fig. Fisr. Rail, Penydarken Works to Glamorgan Canal, Wales. (1804.) (Original in the U. S. National Museum.) Fig. 20 is drawn from a model of a cast tram rail, designed to be laidwithout bolts or spikes. Charles Le Cann, of Llannelly, Wales, in 1808,
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