Date: 1883
This was the first locomotive for railroad purposes ever built in America, and drew the first passenger car ever propelled by steam upon any railroad in the world.  Again the thought comes over one that this is a romance, — a sort of James' intro duction, with a solitary locomotive instead of the solitary horseman, that might have been seen coming over a hill.  The car to which this nondescript steam-locomotive was attached re sembled an ordinary row-boat, the four wheels so placed under the center that a little too much weight at either end would transform it into a teeter.