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12 Railroad in July, 1831. It is interesting to note that these three great American Companies have alone spent an amount approximating a quarter of a million of dollars in making and housing their historical exhibits at the Columbian Exposition. The most extensive exhibit ever made at an Exposition to illustrate the beginnings and development of permanent way, is ^[[that of]] the Haarmaan track Museum ^[[[[check mark]]]] of Osnabruck, Germany, located on the south [[line]] ^[[[[check mark]]]] The book describing this collection contains several illustrations from specimens in the U.S. National Museum and many quotations from the curator's paper on "The Development of the American Rail and Track (Report of the U.S. National Museum 1889). [[line]] side of the Annex to the Transportation Building. This exhibit offers abundant food for study for American engineers interested in the solution of the gravest problem in maintenance of way. The South Carolina Railway, for which the first American locomotive was built, which, in 1831, owned and operated the first one hundred miles of railway controlled by a single corporation, exhibits an interesting series illustrating the development, [[strikethrough]] for 60 [[/strikethrough]] ^[[during the past sixty]] years, in track construction on that historic railway. It si[[line denoting this should be "is"]] understood that this collection will be deposited in the National Museum at the close of the Exposition. The Old Colony Railroad Company exhibits a reproduction of their old time stagebody railway coaches. The Illinois Central Railroad Company exhibits the famous locomotive "Pioneer", one of the first locomotives that ran west of the Allegheny Mountains, ^[[&]] [[underlined]] the [[/underlined]] first that went into service in the city of Chicago.