ed the old locomotives
Daniel Boone, Logan and Joe Davis.

He said the passenger coach was painted yellow. He described the first
locomotive as having a tall smoke stack, a single wheel, and a crank
axle, with no cab, the engineer standing unprotected through wind and
weather. He said it required a cord of two-foot wood to make the trip
from Lexington to Frankfort and return, that the engineer stopped at
Villa Grove and at Duckers "to wood and water." He said at first there
was one passenger and one freight train a day, that freight came from
Cincinnati to Frankfort by river, and from Frankfort to Lexington by
rail. When asked where the headlight for the locomotive was, he replied:
"They did not need a headlight because they only travelled by daylight."
(And yet one of the English commentaries which had made deepest
impression on the railroad promoters was that "Locomotives can travel
safely in the dark.")

Mr. Shepherd said the old engines were finally sold for scrap iron,
loaded on a flat car, and taken away. But the Logan was sold to a coal
mine.

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The Gazette, November 28th, 1835, says:

"There seems to be a perfect mania pervading the country on the subject
of railroads. Hardly a paper comes to hand but contains accounts of
meetings held for the purpose of projecting one through some part or
another."

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And on January 9th, 1836:

"The Mayor has called a meeting of the citizens of Lex. and Fayette Co.
on Monday next at 12 o'clock to take into consideration measures
relative to the contemplated Railroad from Charleston, S. C., to the
Ohio River. The meeting will take place in a Court House."

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On January 23rd, 1836:

We learn that "the Directors of the R. R. Co. have declined bringing
more fire wood to this city but have offered to the agents for procuring
fuel the use of their road and wood cars free of expense for the
transport of that article. The great quantity of freight at the depots
rendering this course necessary on the part of the Company."

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On December 12th, 1835, was an interesting article headed:

RAIL ROAD STOCK.

"Four shares of Lex. and Ohio R. R. Stock were sold at public auction on
Monday last at $101.00 per share, next dividend off being one per cent
advance. This is some evidence of the estimation in which this sto