Trains, Planes and Other Transport

Early trains in America [from a series of US postage stamps]
The Stourbridge Lion became the first actual locomotive (as distinguished from experimental engines) to run in America.
The Best Friend, built for the Charleston 6. Hamburg Railroad in South Carolina in 1830. was the first locomotive to draw a train in America.
The Gowan & Marx was one of the most powerful of early locomotives, hauling 40 times the engine's weight.
The John Bull is the oldest complete locomotive preserved in the U.S., and is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Brother Jonathan was the world's fastest locomotive for a number of years.

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