. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Figure 52. — Rocket at the Fair of the Iron Horse, October 7, 1927. Noteshortened smokestack. 62 A Conodion Relic. Figure 53. — Photo of Samson, built in England in 1 838 by Hackworth, taken inNova Scotia by a New Glasgow photographer some time before 1 890. Observechairs provided for engineer. The third and last of the three complete British locomo-tives of the 1825-1849 period remaining in North Americais also the only extant locomotive of the period on this con-tinent located outside the United States.^ The Samson (figure 53) was built by Timothy
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Figure 52. — Rocket at the Fair of the Iron Horse, October 7, 1927. Noteshortened smokestack. 62 A Conodion Relic. Figure 53. — Photo of Samson, built in England in 1 838 by Hackworth, taken inNova Scotia by a New Glasgow photographer some time before 1 890. Observechairs provided for engineer. The third and last of the three complete British locomo-tives of the 1825-1849 period remaining in North Americais also the only extant locomotive of the period on this con-tinent located outside the United States.^ The Samson (figure 53) was built by Timothy Hackworthat New Shildon, Durham, England, in the summer of 1838, Railroads are known not to have existed in Mexico prior to 1850, and althoughlocomotives of the 1825-1849 period could possibly have found their way into thatcountry at some later date, none are to be found there today, according to advicefrom the Mexican National Railways (Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico). CentralAmerica falls outside the scope of this work, as do the Islands of the , a railroad was opened in Cuba in 1837, and another was started acrossthe Isthmus o
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