. The development of the American rail and track . Fig. Stevens Had- as laid on the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad, in Mississippi, 1841. ( From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) which were placed under the ends of the cross-ties on many of the rail-roads, were called mud-sills, and this name became historic duringthe civil war, 1861-65. The Stevens rail had come into general use in America before 1845,although several railway companies which had imported T-rails fromEngland continued their use on their tracks until the rails were worn DEVELOPMENT OP THE AMERICAN KAIL AND TRACK.
. The development of the American rail and track . Fig. Stevens Had- as laid on the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad, in Mississippi, 1841. ( From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) which were placed under the ends of the cross-ties on many of the rail-roads, were called mud-sills, and this name became historic duringthe civil war, 1861-65. The Stevens rail had come into general use in America before 1845,although several railway companies which had imported T-rails fromEngland continued their use on their tracks until the rails were worn DEVELOPMENT OP THE AMERICAN KAIL AND TRACK. 673 put. For this reason the T-rail without l>ase was in use on the Bostonlid Worcester in 1850 (see Fig. 45), and on the Hempstead Branch ofhe Long Island Railroad as late as 1855 (see Fig. 40).. Fig. 45. Fig. 46. T-Rail, Boston and Worcester Railroad. T-Rail. Hempstead Branch, Long Island r (From a drawing in the U. S. National Museum.) RAILROAD, 1855. (From model in tlie V. S. National Museum.) Every American road, however, without exception, replaced theTrail and strap rail, by rail of the Stevens pattern, as rapidly as theirfinancial condition permitted, continuing to import all rails from Eng-land until 1845. THE STEVENS RAIL FIRST ROLLED IN AMERICA, 1845. In the History of Iron of all Ages Swank states (p. 344) : The Montour Rolling Mill, at Danville, Pennsylvania, was built in 1845 expresslyto roll rails, and here were rolled in October of that year the first T-rails* made inthe United States, and that the first T-rail rolls in this country were made for theMontour Iron Company by Haywood & Snyder, proprietors of the Colliery IronWorks at Pottsville, the work being done at their branch establishment at Dan-ville, Pennsylvania, 1846. Among other early rail mills were
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