Getting started

Colonel Stevens is said to be the father of the american railroads. In 1826 he constructed a circular experimental track to show the feasibility of the steam locomotive. he built this track in his estate in hoboken, New Jersey. This happened three years before George Stephenson had perfected the a practical steam locomotive in England. The first railroad charter in America was granted to John Stevens in 1815. Grants were given to others in later years and soo work started o the first operational railroads. Peter cooper desighned and built the first staem locomotive to be operated on a common-carrier railroad.