DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN RAIL AND TRACK. 



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out. For this reason the Trail without base was iu use ou the Boston 

 and Worcester in 1850 (see Fig. 45), and on the Hempstead Branch of 

 the Long Island Railroad as late as 185.") (see Fig. 46). 



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Fig. 45. 



T-Kaii., Boston and Worcester Railroad. 



:i the I . S. V.* ion il Museum.) 



Fig. 4t). 



T-Kaii.. Bempstead Branch, Long Island 

 Railroad, 1855. 



From modi 1 in the I 



\ i' lonnl Musj 



Every American road, however, without exception, replaced the 

 Trail and strap rail, by rail of the Stevens pattern, as rapidly as their 

 financial condition permitted, continuing to import all rails from Eng- 

 land until L845. 



THE STEVENS RAIL FIRST ROLLED IN AMERICA, 1845. 



In the History of Iron of all Ages Swank states (p. 344) : 



The Montour Rolling Mill, at Danville, Pennsylvania, was built in 1845 expressly 

 to roll rails, and here were rolled in October of that year the first T-rails* made in 

 the United States, and that the firet T-rail rolls in this country were made for the 

 Montour Iron Company by Haywood & Snyder, proprietors of the Colliery Iron 

 Works at Pottsville, the work being done at their branch establishment at Dan- 

 ville, Pennsylvania, 1846. 



Among other early rail mills were the following, with the date when 



"As the form of the English T-rail was dispensed with in America, rails of the Ste- 

 vens pattern (called H-rail in 1832) have been known as T-rails tor many years. 

 H. Mis. UL'4, pt. 2 43 



