CONTENTS 



Rige 



Foreword: The vanishing iron horse 4 



Remaining relics and operable replicas representing the first 



quarter-century of steam locomotives in North America . . 6 



America's first rail locomotive 10 



Two British-built locomotives 14 



Peter Cooper and Phineas Davis 22 



The West Point Foundry Association 26 



National Museum's John Bull 38 



Three Grasshoppers 47 



Two midwestern locomotives 53 



A One-Armed Billy 58 



A Rocket in America 60 



A Canadian relic 63 



The final decade 66 



Supplement: Models, in the National Museum, of locomotives 



not included in this work 75 



Picture credits 104 



Acknowledgments 105 



Bibliography 106 



Index 109 



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