. The great American book of biography . liKlUI^E, NIAGARA THE ROYAL GORGE, COLORADO. OUR AMERICAN RAILROADS. N view of the important part performedby railways in the evolution of Americanprosperity and power, there was some-thing specially significant in the nameof the first American locomotive builtfor the first railway constructed for thecarriage of passengers and freight bysteam power exclusively. It was the Best Friend, made atthe West Point Works, New York City,in the summer of 1830, for the pioneersteam railway between Charleston andHamburg, South Carolina, opened fo
. The great American book of biography . liKlUI^E, NIAGARA THE ROYAL GORGE, COLORADO. OUR AMERICAN RAILROADS. N view of the important part performedby railways in the evolution of Americanprosperity and power, there was some-thing specially significant in the nameof the first American locomotive builtfor the first railway constructed for thecarriage of passengers and freight bysteam power exclusively. It was the Best Friend, made atthe West Point Works, New York City,in the summer of 1830, for the pioneersteam railway between Charleston andHamburg, South Carolina, opened for service in the fall ofthat year. There had been railroads at an earlier date, butthey were not steam roads. The historic three-mile (horse-power) railroad of the Ouincy Granite Company, built in1827, to facilitate the transportation of stone for the BunkerHill Monument, is a notable example. The Delaware and Hud-son Canal Companys gravity coal road between Carbondale andHawley, Pa., was another; and a later one was the tram-road for horsesbetween Baltimore and EUicotts Mi
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