. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . company was managed at first bylocal talent, and one of the first acts ofthe directors was to offer a prize nf $500 talent was necessary for the officers per-forming scientific duties, the position ofchief engineer was offered to HoratioAllen, who probably knew more aboutrailroads than any man in America atthat time. Mr. Allen accepted the place,?.nd within thirty days made an exhaus-tive report recommending the kind ofroad to be constructed and the kind ofpower to be employed in operating it
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . company was managed at first bylocal talent, and one of the first acts ofthe directors was to offer a prize nf $500 talent was necessary for the officers per-forming scientific duties, the position ofchief engineer was offered to HoratioAllen, who probably knew more aboutrailroads than any man in America atthat time. Mr. Allen accepted the place,?.nd within thirty days made an exhaus-tive report recommending the kind ofroad to be constructed and the kind ofpower to be employed in operating it. Mr. Allen had spent several monthsin England the previous year studyingthe construction of railways and of thepower employed in operating them. Hehad been commissioned by the Delaware& Hudson Canal Company to purchasesome locomotive engines for the piece ofrailroad they intended to build, so thathe probably enjoyed the best of op-portunities to study the design and pro-portion of the engines under constructionin the few shops in the British Isles thendevoting themselves to that kind TRACK THAT TKEVITHICKS KAN ON. for the best locomotive driven by horsepower. American ingenuity was quiteequal to meet this requiremen:. and theprize was awarded to C. E. Detmold,who invented a horse-driven motorworked on an endless chain motor carried twelve passengersand attained a speed of twelve m;les perhour. Its performance was regarded assatisfactory. A sailing car was also tried on thisroad, but its career was even shorterthan that of one tried by the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad about the same crew, who engaged to manage it onthe trial trip, were more accustomed tomanage horses than sails. When goingbefore a fresh breeze at about twelvemiles an hour, and loaded with fifteenpassengers, the mast went by the boardcarrying the sail and as many of thepassengers as it could scoop off. Thatbroke the taste of Charleston citizens forsailing on land. HOR-^TIO ALL
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