DeWitt Clinton (locomotive)

The DeWitt Clinton 1831 was the third of the West Point Foundry Association in New York for the railway company Mohawk and Hudson Railroad (M & H) built steam locomotive and the first in New York State. Established on April 17, 1826 M & H, changed its name on April 19, 1847 in Albany and Schenectady Railroad and went to the New York Central Railroad Company on 17 May 1853.

The passengers sat in five stagecoaches that had been set on railroad chassis. With these five yellow passenger cars, the DeWitt Clinton was, fueled by anthracite coal, 50 km / h on a level road. The DeWitt Clinton train needed at that time for which opened on 24 September 1831 Pedigree distance from Albany ( New York) to Schenectady 46 minutes. They bore the name of the former governor of New York State DeWitt Clinton. With this first scheduled train the era of the locomotive was finally ushered in the USA.

Since 1891, the Smithsonian 's National Museum of American History, part of the National Museum of American History, in possession of a wheel of DeWitt Clinton that with the phrase " First Trip, August 9th 1831 " ( maiden voyage, August 9, 1831) is labeled.

While the New York World's Fair in 1939 and at the Chicago Railway Fair in 1949 driving more efficient reproduction of the DeWitt Clinton was shown. This vehicle is now in the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.

On September 24, was published in 1956 in the United States on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the first DeWitt Clinton driving a First Day Cover.