Railways in the United States
Colonel John Stevens is an American inventor and is considered to be the founder of American railroads. He also constructed the first American steam ferry. In 1826 he showed it was possible for locomotives to move around circular rails. In 1815 he was given a railroad charter, the first in the history of the train in the US. He designed and built a steam locomotive which was capable of pulling several passenger cars at his own property in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1825. The Tom Thumb (1830) was one of the first to run on common carrier roads. The Pullman Sleeping Car came out in 1857, made for overnight travel. |
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