. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Old Ironsides. 1832. The first loco-motive built by Matthias W. Baldwin,founder of the Baldwin LocomotiveWorks. Bogie.—Financial conditions in America beinggreatly different from those in Europe, it soon became evident thatmoney could not beobtained with which toto carry on the work ofconstructing railwaysand maintaining thestraight tracks andeasy grades of theEnglish railways. Al-though the four-wheelbogie principle was in-troduced by Hedley &Blacket, as referred toelsewhere, it was not used, nor the idea developedafterward on English ra
. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Old Ironsides. 1832. The first loco-motive built by Matthias W. Baldwin,founder of the Baldwin LocomotiveWorks. Bogie.—Financial conditions in America beinggreatly different from those in Europe, it soon became evident thatmoney could not beobtained with which toto carry on the work ofconstructing railwaysand maintaining thestraight tracks andeasy grades of theEnglish railways. Al-though the four-wheelbogie principle was in-troduced by Hedley &Blacket, as referred toelsewhere, it was not used, nor the idea developedafterward on English railways, until its use inAmerica emphasized, over and over again, itsenormous value inrailway 1832 John built thelocomotive Ex-periment with afour-wheel bogietruck, which en-abled these ma-chines to runaround curves ofvery sharp radius,thus greatly less-ening the cost of. The Exjieriment, built by John B. Jervis,i!i 18:^:2, and said to have been the first enginein America constructed with a four-wheeledbogie. EVOLUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE. 51 construction. Jervis believed engines should bemade especially for light rails and crooked roads,and the adoption of the swiveling or bogie truckwas the result. It was a great step, of enormousvalue to railroads, its merits are now appre-ciated all over the world. Equalizing Levers. — The first engine withequalizing levers are said to have been builtby Henry R. Campi)ell of Philadelphia, in 1887,called the Hercules. The enjj^ine was built
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