. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed in that year. The rails on this line and had quite a career before it passedto the Intercolonial Railway, on whichline it was the first locomotive to be locomotive has been exhibited allover the continent, and has also been onexhibition in England and France, to-gether with a tender shown in the accom-panying photograph. The coach is up-holstered in white satin and is in a splen-did state of preservation. It is about thesize of an old-fashioned stage coach, andlike one in appeara
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed in that year. The rails on this line and had quite a career before it passedto the Intercolonial Railway, on whichline it was the first locomotive to be locomotive has been exhibited allover the continent, and has also been onexhibition in England and France, to-gether with a tender shown in the accom-panying photograph. The coach is up-holstered in white satin and is in a splen-did state of preservation. It is about thesize of an old-fashioned stage coach, andlike one in appearance. Tiie engine is a queer piece of mech-anism as compared with those in use to-day. It has perpendicular cylinders andconnecting Tods; with the old hook mo-tion. One curiosity about it is the factthat the tender was pushed in front of theengine, because the fireman had to feedthe monster from the front. The main difficulty in those days cen-tered around the locomotive and verylittle attention was paid to what sort ofcars the locomotive had to pull. It is amatter of record that Mr. H. C. Boulier,. OLDEST CANADIAN LOCOMOTIVE, THE SAMSON. were of wood covered with flat bars ofiron, and great secrecy was maintainedover the first locomotive that was usedon it. For some reason the engineerwould let nobody see this locomotive,which is one that had been sent out fromEurope. The trial trip was made in moonlightin the presence of a few interested par-ties and it was a failure, the Kitten, forthat was the name of the locomotive,proving refractory. Several attempts weresubsequently made to get this pioneerlocomotive to run to St. John, but invain, and then to the great humiliation ofthe Canadians they had to call in an en-gineer from the United States, whopromptly diagnosed the trouble. Theengine, he declared, was in good order,and all that it wanted was simply plentyof wood and water. This opinion provedcorrect, for after a little practice, whatwas then described as the extraordinaryspe
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