Wooden locomotive

==History==
In 1803 the British engineer Richard Trevithick succeeded in constructing the first functionning steam locomotive powered by a high-pressure steam engine. It was able to drag a ten ton train with five cars occupied by 70 people at a speed of 4.96 mph.\nIn 1812 the first cog railway was put into operation in Great Britain. On September 27, 1825 the very first passenger train in history travelled from Stockton to Darlington. In the process, Robert Stevenson opened the world's first passenger railway route. An age old human dream had come true!\nSoon after this, toy producers reacted to the mobility-boom and built the first mini-locomotives for little boys. Those tiny vehicles soon became the most popular toy around. So you could not only watch locomotives and trains travelling across all the continents, but also across living and play-room floors.\n
==Did You Know That?==
Since the invention of the railway, train engines have been the most popular toy with boys of all ages.\nTechnical progress is also invading children´s bedrooms. Today's toy railway owners will perhaps become technicians or engineers in the future.\nWooden toys meet the latest trend of 'getting back to one´s roots'. \nWooden locomotives are therefore the ideal Christmas or birthday present for kids of ecologists and nature lovers.
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