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Best Friend Locomotive
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 189 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster entitled "'The Best Friend', the First Locomotive built in the United States for actual service on a Railroad" describing the history of the train's construction in New York and operation for the South Carolina Railroad in 1831.

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