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Englishman, Julius Griffiths was the first person to patent a passenger road locomotive.
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Stockton and Darlington Railroad Company started the first railroad construction and it was used for the transportation of passengers and goods.
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George Stephenson creates a Locomotive for America and used it on the tracks created by the Stockton and Darlington Railroad Company. This train pulled six loaded coal cars and 21 passenger cars with 450 passengers over 9 miles in about one hour.
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Mr. Horatio Allen, a resident engineer of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, was studying the railroad activity of England, and decided to go there and have a look. Later, the first locomotive to be used in America was built.
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The train traveled a distance of three miles from Honesdale to Seelyville and return.
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This is the time frame of the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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There is a race to see what is faster, a horse, or a steam train. The train lost, however, the train and a load of people which probably slowed it down.
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Matthias Baldwin placed his locomotive 'Old Ironsides' on the tracks in Philadelphia and made the first trip to Germantown by train. The distance was about ten miles
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The first iron rails made in the United States were manufactured at Mount Savage. Before that, the iron rails came from england.
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The last part of the transcontinental Railroad is laid conecting both sides o the U.S. by raiload.
