Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . dbought one of the locomotives in 1829. It, was put in operationon the railroad connecting the Delaware and Hudson canal withthe mines at Carbondale. This road was l3egun in 1826 and wascompleted in 1829. The locomotive was built in Stourbridge,England, and was called Stourbridge Lion. It proved tooheavy for the road, hence was used only a short time, the faultbeing not with the machine itself, but with the road, which waslight in construction and not calculated to withstand the heavypressure to which it was subjected. Notwithstanding
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . dbought one of the locomotives in 1829. It, was put in operationon the railroad connecting the Delaware and Hudson canal withthe mines at Carbondale. This road was l3egun in 1826 and wascompleted in 1829. The locomotive was built in Stourbridge,England, and was called Stourbridge Lion. It proved tooheavy for the road, hence was used only a short time, the faultbeing not with the machine itself, but with the road, which waslight in construction and not calculated to withstand the heavypressure to which it was subjected. Notwithstanding the doubtful success which attended the ex-jierimental use of the Stourliridge Lion, that result did not dis- 302 Internal Improvements courag-e further attempts in the same direction, but it did have theeffect to stimulate American genius in the work of buikhng loco-motives on this side of the Atlantic. In 1829 the S(uith CarolinaRailroad company determined to equip its road with engines ofAmerican build, and tn that end procured a locomotive to be con-. William Freame Johnston District attorney Armstrong County; memberboth branches State Legislature : speaker StateSenate 1S4-; governor 1848-185J structed in New York city. It was put in service in the fall of1830, and was the first locomotive built in this country for regulartransportation purposes. It was appropriately named Best Friendof Charleston. The second American engine was built in WestPoint, after plans of Horatio Allen, and was put into C(immissionin 1831. The third engine, the famous old DeWitt Clinton ofhistoric memory, was the product of the same shoj), an improve-ment upon the model of its predecessor, and was put into serviceAugust 9, 1831, bv the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad company. Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal and was run l)et\veen All)an}- and Schenectadw in \e\v ^ork State,it weighed tliree and one-half t( and could run tliirtv miles perliour under favorable conditions. .Mthough Pennsylvania was th
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