Show FIRST U. U S. S LOCOMOTIVE On January 15 16 1831 tho the first lo 10 built in America merJ t. t tb B Friend appeared on the tho Ohio railroad Time Tha locomotive was built at th the West Point foundry at New York Tori City and was designed by Hall HaJJ Th The B Best st Friend had bad a 0 vertical tubular boiler carried artle at one ono end nd o oa ofa ot of ota a horizontal platform or fr frame nH the tho cylinders were we-re ut at time the other end ond and the Ume four wheels ls occupied th the space the time boiler boner Ii and 11 the cylinders Time The West t. t Point foundry foundry- built IL second ontI locomotive the Ule O Do Wilt Will Clinton in 1831 which was put ut at St work on the tho Mohawk if Hudson railroad no now 1 a part of ot tho limo NewYork New Nt York Central Hudson lU River r rail ro road This Thi second engine was waa very yen similar simi her lar In design 11 to the tho fh first t. t hut but possessed pos poil e a a. number ot or i improvement |