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| Author: | bobyar2001 [ Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | John Bull to Chicago under steam, 1893 |
Don't know if it really happened, but an interesting newspiece: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfol ... s1245.jpeg |
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| Author: | kalbrandt [ Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: John Bull to Chicago under steam, 1893 |
The John Bull certainly did run under its own power from New York to Chicago in April 1893 for operation at the World's Columbian Exposition. “The historic John Bull . . . after making the trip from New York to Chicago in somewhat less than a week, the engine itself with its two old-fashioned cars was installed in the yards at the terminal station near the Administration building, thus reproducing the first train drawn by a locomotive in New Jersey, the date being the 12th of November, 1831.” Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Book of the Fair, Cygne Noir ed. (Chicago, San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893), 558, http://columbus.iit.edu/bookfair/ch18.html#558 (accessed 14 June 2006). |
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