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It never caught on…
March 26, 2011 by TimHughes 
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This “Novel Hydraulic Railway Locomotive” made the front page of “Scientific American” on Feb. 10, 1877, with a descriptive article which begins: “A new mode of traveling has lately been invented…”. Apparently it never caught on:
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