Excerpt from The History of the First Locomotives in America: From Original Documents, and the Testimony of Living Witnesses Again, in 1870, this same original picture in the rooms Of the Connecticut H'i'storical Society was litho graphed by a concern in Boston, styled the Antique Publishing Company of Boston. In this lithograph the locomotive and train are represented precisely like the one executed in Buffalo, and are here for the second time said to be a sketch of the first locomotive and train in America, and the engine named the John Bull, an English engine, and the engineer John Hampson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.