Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — “PUFFING BILLY,” OLDEST LOCOMOTIVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“PUFFING BILLY,” OLDEST LOCOMOTIVE

‘ It is Just 100 years since the first locomotive ran upon rails. Pulling Billy, the engine which Inaugurated modern railroading, still exists airtT may be seen on its pedestal in a place of honor In the Science Museum at

South Kensington, England—that is, unless a recent question as to its identity be answered in the negative, in which case it is a slightly later engine, but still the earliest now in existence.,