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A most remarkable relic has been added to the series illustrating the history of the locomotive, by Messrs Lindsay & Early, Carbondale, Pa., who have deposited the original boiler of the locomotive "Stourbridge Lion", in the collection. 

Upon the full size model, of this, the first locomotive to turn a driving wheel upon a railroad built for traffic, on the Western Continent, and deposited several years ago by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, is a framed letter from Horatio Allen, who, for sixty years has been a conspicuous figure among American civil engineers. 

The letter reads :-

Homewood, South Orange, N.J.,
January 18, 1888.

Dear Sir: 

In reply to your inquiries, I write to say that the locomotive known as the "Stourbridge Lion" was the first locomotive run on this continent. 

That the occurrence took place at Honesdale, Pa., August 9, 1829, on the mine railroad of the Dela-