The history of the first locomotives in America. From original ...

HOESE AlfD SAILING CAES. 135
Like tlie horse-car, tlie sailing-car had its day. It
was an amusing toy—^nothing more—and is referred to
now as an illustration of the crudity of the ideas pre-
vailijig forty years ago in reference to railroads.
Fig. 11.
SAILING-OAE.
It was after the demonstration by Peter Cooper that
the Baltimore and Susquehanna Eailroad Company,
now the Northern Central, imported the Herald from
England. It ran off the track contiaually, and was
useless. Its unfitness, with its large wheels, for use on
our curved roads was at once apparent, and it had to
he altered to obviate the. difficulty. It was, however,
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