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172 HISTORY OF THE FIEST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA. and -was built in 1832. At eight o'clock in the morning, she was first put in motion on the Germantown and Morristown Railroad at their depot, Ninth and Greene Streets. She ran a mile an hour, and was considered the wonder of the day. On trial, it was ascer- tained that the wheels were too light to draw the tender, and to obviate thij difficulty we had the tender placed in front of the engine, which kept the wheels on the track. Mr. Baldwin, the machinist, and myself, pushed the engine ahead, until we obtained some speed, when we all jumped on the engine, our weight keep- ing the wheels from slipping on the track. The boiler being too small for the engine, steam was only generated fast enough to keep the engine in motion a short time, so that we were compelled to alternately push and ride until we arrived at Germantown depot, where we rested and took sonie refreshments at the expense of the hotel-keeper at that place. "At four o'clock we started on our return to Philadelphia, alternately riding and pushing in the same manner that we had come. Upon arriving at a turn on the road, at the up-grade, the engine suddenly stopped, when, upon examination, it was found that the connecting pipe between the water-tank and the boiler had been frozen, and the steam was all out of the boUer. It was then about eight o'clock, and was growing each moment colder. ' Necessity knows no law,' and so, after a short consultation, we made a summary appropriation of sundry panels of a post-and-raU fence close to the track, and started a fire underneath the pipe to thaw it. In a short time thereafter we had steam up and resumed our journey toward Philadelphia, arriving at the depot about eleven o'clock. Several successive trials were made during the following year ; after each, Mr. Baldwin added improvements and made alterations in the machinery. In about a year it was found that the grease had saturated the hubs and loosened the spokes, and they finally went to pieces, and were replaced by new ones. This same engine is still in existence in Vermont." When tlie author read tliis description in the Ledger, with the astounding caption that preceded it, viz., " The first really effective engine in America," he could not restrain his wonder. His surprise was only increased when he tried to imagine what the editor could be thinking ahout when he suffered such a communication Digitized by Microsoft®
CLAIMS TO riEST LOCOMOTITES. 173 to enter the columns of Ms valuable journal. Wlien the author tried to imagine the appearance of this ex- cursion-party to and from Germantown— ^first pushing awhile, then jumping on for a ride, then oif again for another push, and on again for another ride— ^he was forcibly reminded of a scene he has often witnessed after the boss and his hands, on a railroad division, had knocked off for dinner, when a parcel of schoolboys amused themselves with a ride upon the unoc- cupied hand-car. If Philadelphia will claim this specimen of a locomotive as her share in the enterprise of introducing this indispensable machine into the United States, and as late as 1832, she is welcome to enjoy it; and her mechanics maybe justly proud of their handiwork ; for they had certainly made no improvement upon the Eiiglish locomotives, several of which were at that time (December, 1832) in this country ; besides the fact that there had been built in this country, between the years 1829 and '31, one most successful experimental locomotive by,Mr, Peter Cooper, of New York, which we describe in full, and also there had been built in 1830 and '31 several American locomotives for actual railroad service, which were in successful operation, as we have already shown, viz., the " Best Friend" and the " West Point," for the Charleston^ Railroad. An- other article upon the subject of early locomotives, or rather, as it is headed, "The first train of cars by steam in America," we read ia \ih.Q Boston Advertiser of January, 1869, as follows : " The Fiest Stbam-^tbain in Ameeica."— ^In the superintend- ent's office at the ProTidence Railroad Station, in this city, is a picture of the first steam railroad train in America, run from Albany to Schenectady, over the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, in Digitized by Microsoft®
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