. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Geo. W. Johnson. 1830. The first loco-motive having a double fire box. the manufacture of ■\\heelg, see vol- 50 RAILWAY Old Ironsides. 1832. The first loco-motive built by Matthias W. Baldwin,founder of the Baldwin LocomotiveWorks. Bogie.—Financial conditions in America beinggreatly different from those in Europe, it soon became evident thatmoney could not beobtained with which toto carry on the work ofconstructing railwaysand maintaining thestraight tracks andeasy grades of theEnglish railways. Al-though the four-wheelbogie p
. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Geo. W. Johnson. 1830. The first loco-motive having a double fire box. the manufacture of ■\\heelg, see vol- 50 RAILWAY Old Ironsides. 1832. The first loco-motive built by Matthias W. Baldwin,founder of the Baldwin LocomotiveWorks. Bogie.—Financial conditions in America beinggreatly different from those in Europe, it soon became evident thatmoney could not beobtained with which toto carry on the work ofconstructing railwaysand maintaining thestraight tracks andeasy grades of theEnglish railways. Al-though the four-wheelbogie principle was in-troduced by Hedley &Blacket, as referred toelsewhere, it was not used, nor the idea developedafterward on English railways, until its use inAmerica emphasized, over and over again, itsenormous value inrailway 1832 John built thelocomotive Ex-periment with afour-wheel bogietruck, which en-abled these ma-chines to runaround curves ofvery sharp radius,thus greatly less-ening the cost of
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