Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-16

tnre OF New Jersey, which MAD been asked TO
charter q steam railroad, that the use of steam
on railroads was to he the thing of the future.
1t was tried before the legislature of the state
legislature granted to The Camden and Amboy
the privileges that they asked.
HOW BALDWIN MADE A LOCOMOTIVE.
"After this trial, made on a short piece of
track then constructed, the engine was stored
in a shed to await the completion Of the bal
ance OF the track. At that time q man named
Peae, who had q large museum in PhilRdel-
phia. became anxious to have a toy engine
built I'd run on a circular track in his museum.
He arranged with Baldwin, mathematical In
strument maker and man of ingenuity, who
went to Burdentown, where the engine was
made an examination Of her He then built q
toy locomotive, which was exhibited a. curl
osity for q number of months. The managers
Of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norris
town railroad saw this toy locomotive and or
dered q locomotive of regular sizs from Bald
with It's sha Sexsn tho
history Of the Baldwin locomotive and iron
works, which has built as many and as good
engines as any establishment In the country.
a number OF others went into the business, but
the Camden and Amboy railroad was for a
number of years looked upon as being the pho
Philadelphia and New YORK, although the Bal.
timore and Ohio company, in the construction
was commercially successful for the peculiar
requirements of the business which the road
entered upon, and their invention should not
81 will be able to show . drawing Of the first
locomotive LOGON that ever performed work continu.
built 1y Trsvihics and was rum on the
Myrthyr Tidvil railroad in Wales as early as
1904, and was used to haul pig iron from fur
successful was because he was familiar with
the high pressure engine. When he built the
airy engine. Then he put it n on Wheels and made
1t run, just as Fulton put q low pressure engine
on q boat.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF TIE RAIL.
"When Robert L. Stevens was on the ship on
1880. he devoted considerable amount Of time
to whiting out cross-sections of what he
thought would be a good kind Of iron rails to
lay on the railroad. At that time the best rail
style had been adopted by all the most import
ant roads in Europe. Owing to Its pc culiar
shape + required chair on every cross.tie or
the frst man to design the rail which he termed
the rail-in other words, arail with base
spikes directly to the bearing. Under the
John Bull engine are two of the original rails
rolled from the first design OF Robert L. Stevens
made at Sing Sing. New York, for this road,
% to JOIN The rails to the Woodsn
pins in the holes in the stone blocks. On those
rails now are what were originally termed iron
splice plates of the present day They were at
tached to the rails by rivets put on hot. Thus
we see TINT as early as 1880 there was in use on
the Camden and Amboy railroad tracks sub
| stantially what is now the American railroad
splice bar and railroad spike. Those have been
improved in shape and made stronger 70 meet
the requirements OF an increased amount Of
traffic. but the ideas approved now, after q
lapse OF nfty-five years, are substantially the
same. The wooden cross.ties have taken
the place of the stone block, which, owing to
expense and rigidity had TO be abandoned 2
few years after they were first laid. The stand
ards of track adopted by the first successful
railroads of the country at different times will
be shown by models; cross-sections Of different
forms Of rails will be shown, together with
models OF different kinds of frogs switches, &c.
It is the intention to bring these Illustrations
up to the present time, that we will have q
correct history OF the birth and development Of
the American railway system during the first
halt century of its existence.
II expect to sail for Europe on the 10th
inst.,' said Mr. Watkins. 81 will visit different
museums there, and will bring back drawings
Or duplicates of whatever may be in existence
| there in connection with my section. Ifhealth
and strength are spared me, hope to make the
collection in the national museum the most
valuable Of its kind in the world.