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 Post subject: Tom Thumb
PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:41 pm 

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I noted on a couple of sites that this date is said to mark the first run of an American-built locomotive, the B&O's Tom Thumb, in 1830.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tomthumb.htm


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