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Excerpt from Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States Earliest account of a railway Improvements in the rail Timber rails, faced with iron Iron rails The wagon or car A wagon train suggested An early view as to practicability The first railway corporation Motive power The steam pump and the locomotive Oliver Evans John Stevens' contribution Hedley and Hackworth Early railroad literature Influence of Gray's book The first standard work Current comment The Stockton and Darlington railway The Rocket Stephenson's service The importance of the track The railroad in America Early charters Tramways in America The first railroad project Railroads auxiliary to canals First use of the locomotive in America Structural difliculties Experiments in mo tive power Strickland's mission and report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.