Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1916 — Used Imported Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

Used Imported Locomotive.

The Baltimore & Ohio was the pioneer American railroad construction solely with reference to the immediate use of steam traction. At first horses preceded locomotives on the Baltimore & Ohio, the Philadelphia & Columbia, and the Mohawk & Hudson, but the first locomotive actually run upon an American railroad was the Stourbridge LionFimported from England in 1829 to be used near Honesdale, Pa., but the engine proved too heavy for the trestles, and the service was abandoned.