Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — The First Train. [ARTICLE]

The First Train.

In 1790 Nathan Reed built tho first steam read wagon in America. Four vears before Symington, 'in England, had mounted a coach body on thor-ough-brace springs,and in|lM)3 Trevithick put a coach bjdy in a frame, attached a boiler underneath, connected a cylinder with cog wheels and thus brought together the component parts of a modern traih.