History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . ountry parts, the new railwayprojects encountered great hostility. En-gineers were not infrequently clubbed fromthe fields as they sought to articles appeared in the papersarguing against the need of railways andexhibiting the perils attending steam came to be used, these scru-ples were re-enforced by the alleged dangerthat the new system of travel would doaway with the market for oats and forhorses, and that stage-drivers would seekwages in vain. The first trip by a locomotive was
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . ountry parts, the new railwayprojects encountered great hostility. En-gineers were not infrequently clubbed fromthe fields as they sought to articles appeared in the papersarguing against the need of railways andexhibiting the perils attending steam came to be used, these scru-ples were re-enforced by the alleged dangerthat the new system of travel would doaway with the market for oats and forhorses, and that stage-drivers would seekwages in vain. The first trip by a locomotive was in 1828, over the Carbondale and Honesdale route in Pennsylvania. The engine was of English make, and run by Mr. Horatio Allen, who had had it built. This was a year before the first steam railroad wasVOL. III.—10 146 WHIGS AND DEMOGRATS [1840 opened in England. July 4, 1828, con-struction upon the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road was begun. It, like the other earlyroads, was built of stone cross-ties, withwooden rails topped with heavy straps ofiron. Such ties were soon replaced by. L » 0 L-^ The South Carolina, 1831, and plan of^lts running gear. wooden ones, as less likely tp be split byfrost, but the wooden rail with its ironstrap might be seen on branch lines, forinstance, between Monocaey Bridge andFrederick City, Md., so late as the CivilWar. The first railroad for passengers in thiscountry went into operation between i84o] INDUSTRIAL ADVANCE BY 1840 147 Charleston and Hamburg, S. C, in locomotive had been gotten up inNew York, the first of American had four wheels and an lipright year the railroad between Albany andSchenectady was begun, and fourteen milesof the Baltimore & Ohio opened for 1831 Philadelphia was joined to Pitts-
Size: 1832px × 1363px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyorkcscribnerss
