York 1831 Train Engine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

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YORK 1831 ENCOURAGED by the suc- cess of the tiny Tom Thumb the Baltimore and Ohio offered a prize of $3500 for the best loco- motive that should be built for it. Phineas Davis, a watchmaker at York, Pennsylvania, devised an engine which was hauled by oxen for sixty miles to Baltimore over a hilly road and which went at once into successful operation.

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ALL TRAINS VIA BALTIMORE & OHIORR 1827 WITH STOPO PRIVILEGE 1927 Centenary Pageant STAMP