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who rode upon the locomotive when he was a boy and who was thoroughly familiar with its construction.*

Locomotive "Best Friend", 1830 (model). The first locomotive constructed in America for actual service on a railroad. Built at West Point Foundry, New York, for the South Carolina Railroad. Made trial trip January 15, 1831. This model is constructed from the original drawings in possession of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Locomotive "John Bull". Camden and Amboy Railroad. India ink drawing (on mat 30 by 40) from tracings of the original working drawings which accompanied the locomotive from Stephenson's Works, New Castle-on-Tyne, showing how the locomotive appeared when set up at Bordentown, N.J., August 1831. The tender, built at Bordentown shortly afterward, was improvised from a small 4-wheel construction car,

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* The original multi-tubular locomotive boiler, constructed by John Stevens, 1825, for this experimental locomotive, was deposited in the U.S.N.M. by the authorities of the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N.J., in the last fiscal year, and is referred to in my annual report for 1887-1888.