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1826 or 1828 built a miniature locomotive in Lexington, Kentucky. 

 The little machine, large enough to pull a car and several passengers, 

 was exhibited in Louisville, throughout Indiana and Ohio, and as 

 far south as New Orleans. In 1832 Bruen built a full-size locomotive 

 for use on the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, but it proved a failure. 

 (A more complete description of this machine and Bruen's activities 

 can be found in T. D. Clark's excellent article, "The Lexington and 

 Ohio Railroad — A Pioneer Venture." 3) 



Another early attempt at locomotive construction was that by 

 Francis Shield of Cincinnati. Shield was born in England, the 

 homeland of the locomotive, in 1783. Trained as a machinist, he 

 settled in Cincinnati in 181 g. It has not been determined when he 

 first began experimenting with locomotives, and the subsequent 

 history of other such machines built by him is equally elusive. He 

 is credited with building a railway engine for a Mr. Gro\er of 

 Lexington, Kentucky, before 1830.^ Whether this had any con- 

 nection with Bruen or the Lexinq-ton and Ohio Railroad must remain 



3 Register: Kentucky State Historical Society (January 1933), pp. 9-28. 

 * From the Cincinnati Advertiser and Ohio Phoenix (July 31, 1830), as reprinted in 

 In Memoriam, p. 248. 



