Train Trilogy I: Steam Locomotives Traditional Cache

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This cache is a camo cache and it is all about Steam Locomotives. The container contains little Steam Locomotives and wagons. You can use other things to trade.

Steam Locomotives


Steam Locomotive 1926

History of Trains

At first, trains carried freight only.In 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England started to operate regular services for passengers.George Stephenson designed a steam locomotive called "Locomotion" to pull passenger cars.On September 27th,1825 the locomotive to pull a special train to mark the first steam-hauled public railroad.Tom Thumb, built in 1829 first ran in 1830 on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Ellicots Mill, Maryland.This was the first public railroad in the United States.


A steam locomotive is a locomotive powered by a steam engine.


Beginning in Britain, steam locomotives dominated railway usage from the start of the 19th century, until the middle of the 20th Century.


Locomotive Trevithick 1801



Vulcan Steam Locomotive 1917


They were gradually improved and developed in their over 150 years of development and use.


Union Pacific Railroad's Challenger 1941


Starting in about 1930 other types of engines were developed and steam locomotives were gradually superseded by diesel and electric locomotives.


Diesel and Electric Locomotive

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