MAIN SQUEEK!
BEFORE STEAM
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MOTORBIKES
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SPACE VEHICLES
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Locomotives are a means of transportation for both goods and passengers.
Steam Locomotive
Steam locomotive is a self-contained power unit consisting essentially of a steam engine and a boiler with fuel and water supplies. The first steam locomotive for railroads was designed by an English inventor named George Stephenson in the early 1550. George Stephenson locomotive pulled 6 loaded coal cars and 21 passengers cars with 450 passengers over 9 miles in less than an hour. Eaven though George Stephenson was the first to build the steam locomotive, Richard Trevithick invented the first tramway locomotive, designed for a road and not for a railroad. Richard Threvithick in England and Oliver Evans in the US were the first men that understood the importance of higher pressure steam. Their ideas are high pressure, higher speed, lighter parts and wider expansion stroke. In 1830 Peter Cooper, an American built the steam locomotive. These locomotives are fueled by steam, gas, electric and diesel. Peter Cooper was the first American to build the first steam locomotive named Tom Thumb. The steam locomotive is a self-contained power unit consisting essentially of a steam engine and a boiler with fuel and water supplies.
Electric Locomotive
Electric locomotives generally have two or more motors. Electric locomotive range from the small type used in factories and coal mines for local hauling to the large engines used on railroads. Electric locomotives generally have 2 or more motors. Electric locomotives range from the small type used in factories and coal mines unsed on railroads. The diesel-electric locomotive was introduced to the United States in 1924, and have become the most widely used type of automotive.
Diesel Locomotive
The diesel electric locomotive was introduced to the United States in 1924, and has become the most widely used type of locomotive.
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First steam engine arrives in the colonies from England.
First steam engine in America is installed to pump water from a mine.
An Act of Parliament establishes the Middleton Railway in Leeds. Thus the Middleton claims to be the oldest Railway in the world.
Englishman William Jessup designs first wagons with flanged wheels.
1800- Oliver Evans, an American creates the earliest successful non-condensing high pressure stationary steam-engine
1804- Matthew Murray of Leeds, England invents a steam locomotive which runs on timber rails. This is probably the first railroad engine. Seen by Richard Trevithick before he builds his locomotive. He then builds a 40 psi steam locomotive for the Welsh Penydarran Railroad.
1812- The first commercially successful steam locomotives, using the Blenkinsop rack and pinion drive, commenced operation on the Middleton Railway. This was the world's first regular revenue-earning use of steam traction.
1825- Stephenson's 8-ton Locomotion No.1 built for the Stockton & Darlington Railroad. Capable of pulling 90 tons of coal at 15 mph. Stephenson plans all details of the line, and even designs the bridges, machinery, engines, turntables, switches, and crossings, and is responsible for every part of the work of their construction.
1829- The first steam locomotive used in America,
1872- George Wetinghouse patents the first automatic air brake. This is basically the same system as is used by today's railroads.
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Squeaky toots his train 
