History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . 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 whe
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . 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-. Boston & Worcester Railroad, 1835. burgh by a line of communication consist-ing of a railway to Columbia, a canal thenceto HoUidaysburg, another railway thenceover the Alleghanies to Johnstown, andthen on by canal. The railway over themountains consisted of inclined planesmounted by the use of stationary is interesting to notice the view whichuniversally prevailed at firsts that the loco-motive could not climb grades, and that 148 WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS [1840 where this was necessary stationary engineswould have to be used. Not till 1836was it demonstrated that locomotives couldclimb. Up to the same date, also, locomo-tives had burned wood, buj: this was nowfound inferior to coal, and began to begiven up except where it was much thecheaper fuel. From 1832 the railway system grewmarvellously. The year 1833 saw com-pleted the South Carolina Railroad be-tween Charleston and the Savannah River,one hundred and thirty-six miles. This wasthe first railway line in this country to
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