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Introduction To Railroad Engineering
Introduction To Railroad Engineering
In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway
which became the first public steam railway.
In the nineteenth century the first railway
locomotives were powered by steam,
usually generated by burning coal. The
first steam locomotive was built by
Richard Trevithick; it first ran on
February 21, 1804.
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