Best Friend of Charleston Locomotive - Side View
by John Swatsley
Title
Best Friend of Charleston Locomotive - Side View
Artist
John Swatsley
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Cold Press Illustration Board
Description
As railroads came to be built, and horse drawn entities were still common, the steam engine fired the imagination of the nation's entrepreneurs. The Charleston & Hamburg Line had as its chief engineer Horatio Allen, who in 1829 had designed the "Stourbridge Lion" - America's first operational locomotive. The success of the imported Lion encouraged Allen to attempt an American-made version. In December of 1830, the "Best Friend of Charleston" became the first locomotive ever to pull a train of cars by steam power along American railroad tracks. One month later, the six-mile railroad began formal operation. About two hundred guests, mostly shareholders and their families, rode the train. Traveling at twenty-one miles per hour, the train was hailed by intermittent explosions from a small Army field gun specially requisitioned for the trip. Later, on the regular run, the two hundred guests were replaced by forty to fifty paying customers.
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