. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . opened from Baltimore, a fewmiles to the west, the year before, and about the sametime another was built in South Carolina. Two yearsearlier, in 1829, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com-pany brought from England three locomotives, one ofthem built by Stephenson, to draw coal to their canalfrom their mines at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. In 1826a railroad four miles long was built at Quincy, Massa-chusetts, to carry granite from the quarries to the sea.It was called a tramway, and horses were used instead 53 54 FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY of steam. If we
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. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . opened from Baltimore, a fewmiles to the west, the year before, and about the sametime another was built in South Carolina. Two yearsearlier, in 1829, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com-pany brought from England three locomotives, one ofthem built by Stephenson, to draw coal to their canalfrom their mines at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. In 1826a railroad four miles long was built at Quincy, Massa-chusetts, to carry granite from the quarries to the sea.It was called a tramway, and horses were used instead 53 54 FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY of steam. If we go to England, we shall find thattramways have been used there for more than a hun-dred years. Thus it is not easy to say when the firstrailroad was built, and all writers do not tell the samestory about it, but it is certain that steam cars werefirst used and long roads with iron tracks were firstbuilt a little less than a hundred years ago. If we study the De Witt Clinton train, we shall learnseveral things. Both the engine and the coaches were. Fig. i8. The De Witt Clinton Train small and light compared with those used now. Withthe great speed of to-day, all the parts of a train mustbe very heavy in order to cling to the track. The engineof those days had four light driving wheels, and the engi-neer, it would seem, had to operate his engine whilefacing wind and storm. The cab looks very much like acommon express wagon made heavier than usual; and ifwe look at the passenger wagons, we shall see why passen-ger cars are called coaches. The first ones were coaches, THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILWAY 55 and every picture of an old passenger train shows thatthe cars were modeled after the coaches of the stagelines of that age, except that the wheels were madewith flat rims, with flanges to keep them on the track.The passengers certainly could not move about, and thehigh perches on the top look somewhat dangerous. Onewould think that the wind and the smoke of the locomo-tive could not ha