| Show E early arly railroader had many brilliant ideas at albany N T august 0 9 1831 the first scheduled passenger train to be operated on american soil puffed away from the makeshift depot with its 15 passengers at the throttle was matthew an ingenious scotsman destined dest ladd to become the father of rail road improvements matthew was proud of tho the cab that sheltered him tor for it was the first one used ond and he had devised it previous to that engineers and firemen had labored exposed to the elements on oil a subsequent trip a herd of cattle blocked the way and matthew at once invented what he called a cow catcher it ft was constructed however to push the cattle asido rather than to catch them in 1830 1836 aie no made the first railway snowplow now plow and included a device to deft tile snow and pour the water into a tank supplying the boller boiler among his many others other inventions were two types of sandears handcars hand han dears cars the first ones the method of forcing wheels onto axles by pressure and a device for pouring sand under the locomotive wheels to prevent slipping matthew died la in san francisco in fu 1891 01 at the age of seventy milne de mx tested by Spee clIl As a vessel Is known by the sound whether it be cracked or not so men mel are proved by their speeches they be wasp or foolish A s |
