CONTENTS
Smith Hempstone Oliver
Page
Foreword: The vanishing iron horse
4
Remaining relics and operable replicas representing the first quarter-century of steam locomotives in North America
6
America’s first rail locomotive
10
Two British-built locomotives
14
Peter Cooper and Phineas Davis
22
The West Point Foundry Association
26
National Museum’s John Bull
38
Three Grasshoppers
47
Two midwestern locomotives
53
A One-Armed Billy
58
A Rocket in America
60
A Canadian relic
63
The final decade
66
Supplement: Models, in the National Museum, of locomotives not included in this work
75
Picture credits
104
Acknowledgments
105
Bibliography
106
Index
109
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