The "South
Carolina", 1831.
This Engine was built at the
shops of the West Point Foundry Association, New York, for the South Carolina
Railroad in 1831, from the designs of Horatio Allen, and was the first eight
wheel engine built in America. The engine had a vibrating truck at both ends
with cylinders thereon. It had a double ended boiler with the firebox in the
middle with flues from firebox to each end of the boiler and had double smoke
box and double stack, with fire door on side of firebox and had flexible steam
and exhaust pipes.
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