Beginning of Locomotive 1 3 



ride upon the footplate. As is usual in 

 the early days of the locomotive, there was 

 the inevitable breakdown, and the engineer 

 and his friends repaired to a wayside inn, 

 leaving the locomotive to its own devices. 

 It would seem that the water level fell too 

 low, and the boiler became red hot, so hot 

 indeed, that it set fire to the shed wherein 

 it had been placed. 



Either this engine, or another one resem- 

 bling it was often seen in the principal 

 street of Camborne. An interesting feature 

 of this machine was the double bellows, 

 which was operated from the motion to 

 help the steam blast from the cylinder. 



Richard Trevithick was really a mining 

 engineer, and without doubt he was a 

 successful one, but he could no more keep 

 from the study and the design of the loco- 

 motive than his friend Murdoch. While 

 Murdoch turned to another hobby, that 

 of coal-gas making, and the perfecting 

 of plant used in the various pro- 

 cesses, Trevithick remained true to his 

 locomotives. 



