A CENTURY S PROGRESS IX LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. 



Fig. I. — The BIcnkinsop locomotive, built in 1812-13 to work on the rack 

 Railway Ijctween Ixtnls and the Middleton (olliery, a distance of 3.5 miles. This 

 was the first < (immcrcially successful enterprise in which steam IcMomotives were 

 cmpKiyetl. Fig. 2. — McnJel of hnomotive engine No. i of the Stockton ami Dar- 

 lington Railway, Kngland, built by Messrs R. Stevenson & Company in 1825. 

 This engine ran .successfully for 21 years. Fig. 3. — The locomotive "Royal 

 Gcorgr" which worked on the Sttxkton and Darlington Railway 1827-1842. It 

 will be ol>MTve<i that each of these engines antedateti Stevenson's famous " Rocket." 

 Fig. 4. -Shows, by way of contrast with these earliest types of locomotive, the 

 "Twentieth Century Limitefl" train of the New York Central Railniad, and a 

 racing automobile, either of which can ea.sily make Ix'tter time than a mile a min- 

 ute, as against the two or three miles |ier hour of their pn>totyj>cs. 



