Early Illinois Railroads A Paper Read Before The Chicago Historical Society Tuesday Evening February 20 1883 1884 PDF Download

Excerpt from Early Illinois Railroads: A Paper, Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday Evening, February 20, 1883 The first railroad constructed for freight traffic in England, on which steam was used as the means Of propulsion, was the Hetton Railway, a Short track of 'eight miles, built from the Hetton Col liery' to the docks at Sunderland, on the banks Of the River Wear. It was opened on November 18, 1822. Stephenson was the engineer of the line, and he used five locomotives upon it of his Own design, which were called by the people Of the neighbor hood the iron horses. Here possibly we have the origin of the phrase now become so common. The liverpool-and-manchester Road, thirty-seven miles long, was commenced in 1826, and opened for traffic, September 15, 1830. Its gauge was four feet, eight-and-a-half inches. The surveys for this line were made in the face of strong opposition. Edward Pease was a wealthy iron manufacturer. '1' George Stephenson was an English railroad engineer, born at Wylam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.