Later in July the two locomotives were sent up the Dela- 

 ware and Hudson Canal from Eddyville, N. Y., to Hones- 

 dale, Pa., where the Stourbridge Lion was subsequently tried 

 out on the newly laid railroad tracks of the Canal company. 

 The tests on August 8, and again on September 9, with 

 Horatio Allen at the controls, showed that although the per- 

 formance of the locomotive was satisfactory, the track was 

 not sufficiently stable to withstand the weight of the rela- 

 tively large machine. As a result of this failure, horses and 

 steam- or water-powered stationary engines (see figure 7) 

 constituted the motive power of this railroad until 1860. 



The Stourbridge Lion, nevertheless, had earned the distinc- 

 tion of being the first locomotive to operate in America on a 

 railroad built expressly for commercial traffic. 



No record exists to show that the America was ever used, 

 and its subsequent history as a locomotive is unknown. Two 

 other locomotives were built by Foster, Rastrick and Co. for 

 the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. As these were not de- 

 livered to Rondout until after the Lion had demonstrated the 

 inadequacy of the track at Honesdale, they were not sent 

 there, but were instead stored at Rondout, where all trace of 

 them has been lost. It is thought they were destroyed by fire 

 while in storage. 



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