A history of the American nation . invented a*travehng engine, w^hich he named My Lord. Some yearslater (1825) the Stockton and Darlington Railway w^as opened,and Stephenson acted as engineer on a trial trip of his new loco- ^ The earliest roads were built with wooden rails, and afterward thesewere covered with bands or strips of iron. Horses furnished the motivepower. The first road of this kind seems to have been built as early as 1807,in Boston. The first steam locomotive used in this country was broughtfrom England in 1829, and was called the Stourbridge Lion. 2S4 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN N
A history of the American nation . invented a*travehng engine, w^hich he named My Lord. Some yearslater (1825) the Stockton and Darlington Railway w^as opened,and Stephenson acted as engineer on a trial trip of his new loco- ^ The earliest roads were built with wooden rails, and afterward thesewere covered with bands or strips of iron. Horses furnished the motivepower. The first road of this kind seems to have been built as early as 1807,in Boston. The first steam locomotive used in this country was broughtfrom England in 1829, and was called the Stourbridge Lion. 2S4 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION motive. The success of this enteq^rise encouraged the buildingof the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. On this line (iS^o^StephenstMi tried the * Rocket . which sped away at the astound-ing ^xice of twenty-nine miles an hour. Cmal propertv isruined, wrote a correspondent from London: in fact they areeven anticipating that it may be necessary- to let the canals drjand to lay rails on them. nOSTON \yD WORCESTER RAIL ROAD. 7 ^^. Drpoi near \\\i<^ r£;tori *:reet. ic» Nt-»;on,ai6 end10 oclock. and M ?{ ocK-ck. P. M and pg, Icavf Nest -en as5f? e?>t^tf way may ^e hacl at tb«Ticktl OlTice. N>> 017. NSjNhi-gion sireei , pncf 3 <i ; Mid isr »hc return passage, ci the Martcr o^f the CarJ, Bv order ofthe ,t and D r?cfor?. a:9 e? <:/ F. A WILLIAMs^. Cerh. -\D\Xiirisxui:M or the First PASSXNatiK Train in MASS.\OHrsEns, May, 1S34 Meiuitime inventors and capitalists were at work in America,Indeed, the success of the Stockton and Darlington Railway seems to have produced a greater impression onAmeric*. * ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ Nvatcr than in England. New York was already reaping the benent of the ErieCiuial, but the cities farther south were still without easy meansof cv^mmunication with the West, and Ix^th Baltimore and Phila-delphia seem to have feh the loss of Western trade, which wasn
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