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to overcome every obstacle, succeeded, through the demonstrations at Rainhill, in transforming the situation into one marked ever thereafter by an unfailing optimism as to the ultimate outcome. Hackworth, although the first to recognize what the vacuum creating meant with the draft, overdid it in the "Sans Pariel" his entry in the Railhill locomotive competition. The effect of the exhaust or blast into the towering stack of the engine was so strong for the singleflue boiler that the greater part of the fuel went through and out and into the air hardly half consumed. This being subsequently remedied, the engine proved an infinitely better one than Stephenson's "Rocket", the fate of which has already been alluded to. The "Sans Pariel" was in active railroad service for many years, and as the "Rocket", is of the historic treasures of the South Kensington Museum. The chronicles of the world's railways embrace no more daring embodiment of nerve than that of the Baltimore bankers who early in 1827 calmly resolved to build a railroad from the Chesapeake to the Ohio. railroad anywhere for commercial purposes. There was no No completed line of rail existed on the globe other than the uoughly conformed tramways for coal or stone carrying, which, until this time, had been the sole incentive to construction 39
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