Trains & Railroads

The Stourbridge Lion
[click to enlarge] became the first actual locomotive (as distinguished from experimental engines) to run in America.

The Best Friend,
[click to enlarge] 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
[click to enlarge] was one of the most powerful of early locomotives, hauling 40 times the engine's weight.

The John Bull
[click to enlarge] is the oldest complete locomotive preserved in the U.S., and is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Brother Jonathan
[click to enlarge] was the world's fastest locomotive for a number of years.