. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . people fromfar and near assembled to see the JohnBull pull its first passenger train. ping point for New York. Thy railroad,which the people of Bordentown didmuch to promote, was eventually the ruinof the town, for it was left a way sta-tion on a branch line. It was originallya quaker settlement, yet one of the mostcherished glories of the place was thatit was for years the residence of JosephBonaparte, brother of Napoleon. CAMDEN & AMBOVS CELEBRATEDPIONEERS. The Camden & Amboy Railroad Com-p
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . people fromfar and near assembled to see the JohnBull pull its first passenger train. ping point for New York. Thy railroad,which the people of Bordentown didmuch to promote, was eventually the ruinof the town, for it was left a way sta-tion on a branch line. It was originallya quaker settlement, yet one of the mostcherished glories of the place was thatit was for years the residence of JosephBonaparte, brother of Napoleon. CAMDEN & AMBOVS CELEBRATEDPIONEERS. The Camden & Amboy Railroad Com-pany exercised a powerful influence onthe development of the locomotive en-gine; but the work was due principallyto the ability of two men, Robert and Isaac Dripps. Mr. Sievenswas president of the company and was a young machinist and ma-rine engineer whom Mr. Stevens en-gaged to take charge of the machineryof the railroad. Robert L. Stevens was a son of JohnStevens, whose wonderful foresight intothe future of land transportation bymeans of the steam engine has been re-. ^m-^m^ t2> i:ij-i^ THE JOHN BULL AND ITS FIRST TRAIN. Mr. Rogers, of Paterson, visited the shopwhen the engines were under constructionand expressed approval of the counterbal-ance weights, but thought they ought tohave been cast in the wheel center. The engines gave much satisfaction inservice, and the four novelties of design,the outside cylinders, the iron frames, thecounterbalanced driving wheels and thecenter bearing truck, were all graduallyadopted by American locomotive builders,but I am not aware of the credit of theseimprovements ever having been given tothose who originated them. They pos-sessed all the elements of what after-wards became the representative Ameri-can locomotive except the second pairof drivers, and that arrangement thebuilders had proposed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Companywas a direct development of the Phila-delphia & Columbia Railroad, but it af-terwards absor
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