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Show Early Locomotive Did Not Opzrate in Rain Nearly nil the great inventions and discoveries whiih have made modern life so wonderful and at the same time so strenuous have been produced within with-in the last century. A huge step forward for-ward was made, something about a century ago, when the steam engine was adapted to haul trains of "wagons" on railroads. A copy of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Chronicle of that period contains con-tains this unique advertisement: Notice No-tice The locomotive engine (built by Mr. W. Baldwin of this city) will depart de-part daily when weather Is fair with a train of passengers: on rainy days horses will be attached." This engine, en-gine, "built by Mr. Baldwin," was the beginning of t lie great Baldwin locomotive loco-motive works, which is now ore of the biggest things of the kind in the world. Mr. Baldwin made the astonishing aston-ishing boast that his original engine would "draw 30 tons on a level road." Now a single freight car will hold twice that much. |