First Revenue Trains Run on B&O Railroad: Commercial Rail Begins
The horse won. That's what passengers remembered most about America's first paid train ride—how *Stockton & Stokes*, the actual horse pulling a coal car on parallel tracks, beat the steam locomotive for the first thirteen miles between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills. The B&O's engine kept stopping to build pressure. Twenty-four passengers paid their fare anyway, lurching along at ten miles per hour when the boiler cooperated. By 1835, horses were gone from American railroads entirely. Turns out people will pay for the future even when it loses to the past.
May 24, 1830
196 years ago
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