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64. In America the locomotive was set at regular work on rail- 

 roads, for the first time, on the Stli of August, 1829. 1 



This first locomotive was built by Foster, Rastrick & Co., at Stour- 

 bridge, England, and was purchased by Mr. Horatio Allen for the 

 Delaware & Hudson Canal Company's road from Carbondale to 

 Honesclale, Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Peter Cooper, of New York, placed an experimental locomo- 

 tive on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1829. It ran about fifteen 

 miles an hour at maximum speed. 



The first American locomotive to do real service continuously was 

 the "Best Friend" (Fig. 34), built at the West Point Iron Foundery, 



Fig. 34. The "Best Friend," 1830. 



in the year 1830, for the South Carolina Railroad, on which road it 

 ran from January, 1831, to June 17th of the same year, when it was 

 destroyed by the explosion of its boiler. 



A second locomotive (Fig. 35) was built at West Point for the same 

 road in 1831, which resembled somewhat those built at about the 

 same time, and a little later, by Stephenson. 



It was at this time (1831), also, that Mr. Horatio Allen introduced 

 the first eight-wheeled locomotives ever built, and gave them a form 

 (Fig. 36) which will be at once recognized by the engineer as the 

 prototype of a recently-built locomotive which has been brought 

 out in Great Britain. In this year, also, an engine, the De Witt 

 Clinton, was built for John B. Jervis of the Mohawk & Hudson 

 Railroad. 



65. At about the time of the opening of the early railroads, the 



1 "History of the First Locomotive in America," W. H. Brown. D. Appleton & Co., 

 New York, 1872. 



