. The development of the American rail and track . ased in populationaud commercial prosperity. In 1832 the South Carolina Railroad fromCharleston to Hamburg, 135 miles long, which was then the longestrailroad in the world, was a continuous trestle work, with rails ofsquared timber, capped with strap iron, framed to the top of posts,where gradiug woald have been necessary. *The Board of Eugineers for Internal Improvements received their instructionsdirectly from the President of the United States, 1824-32. 664 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. AMERICA WITHOUT ROLLING/ MILLS AT THE BEGINNING OF
. The development of the American rail and track . ased in populationaud commercial prosperity. In 1832 the South Carolina Railroad fromCharleston to Hamburg, 135 miles long, which was then the longestrailroad in the world, was a continuous trestle work, with rails ofsquared timber, capped with strap iron, framed to the top of posts,where gradiug woald have been necessary. *The Board of Eugineers for Internal Improvements received their instructionsdirectly from the President of the United States, 1824-32. 664 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. AMERICA WITHOUT ROLLING/ MILLS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RAILROAD ERA. When the corner-stone of the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad was laidin 1828, there was not a rolling mill in all the United State where rails jof the character laid on the Stockton and Darlington Railroad could be !rolled ; in fact, the ouly rails rolled in America for several years afterwas the strap rail of merchantable bar iron 2J inches wide and five-eighths of an inch thick, the holes for the spikes often being drilled
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