Excerpt from The Eastern Railroad: A Historical Account of Early Railroading in Eastern New England Hampshire Telegraph of Nov 17, 1832, published at Nashua, N. H., is of interest The ship Choctaw, ' at Boston from Liverpool, has on board another Locomo tive Engine with apparatus complete intended for the Lowell Railroad. She has also brought for the same purpose about 2000 bars of railroad iron. The original sleepers on the Lowell road were of granite, but were soon done away with as they were found to make the track too ...
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Excerpt from The Eastern Railroad: A Historical Account of Early Railroading in Eastern New England Hampshire Telegraph of Nov 17, 1832, published at Nashua, N. H., is of interest The ship Choctaw, ' at Boston from Liverpool, has on board another Locomo tive Engine with apparatus complete intended for the Lowell Railroad. She has also brought for the same purpose about 2000 bars of railroad iron. The original sleepers on the Lowell road were of granite, but were soon done away with as they were found to make the track too rigid. At first the stage companies did not anticipate any very serious results from the new competition. A prominent stage proprietor in Providence, R. I., said, shortly before the Opening of the railroad Let the train run off the track when going thirty miles an hour and kill two or three hundred people a few times and people will be ready to stick to the stages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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