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PRINT Best Friend of Charleston Print South Carolina RR US Steel
USS Creosote Prints, USS Chemicals -Part of United States Steel: Measure approx 15.5 x 19.5 inches, the interior lines measure approx 16 X 10 inches.
Shipped rolled. Paper clip identation along the one edge.
BEST FRIEND OF CHARLESTON
1830 0-4-0 art - South Carolina Railroad
Wheel arrangement: 0-4-0 Weight: Four tons (approximately)
Cylinders: Two, inclined Horsepower: Six
Builder: West Point Foundry, New York.
Historical Highlights
In 1830, while the Baltimore & Ohio was establishing the nations first common carrier, the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad became the first to use the steam power which set the standard for American railroading. Horatio All, chief engineer of the Charleston & Hamburg, later the South Carolina Railroad, was responsible for the decision to purchase a steam locomotive and a contract was awarded to E. I. Miller. Records indicate that E.C. Detmold assisted in the design of the locomotive and it was constructed by the West Point Foundry in New York. In October, 1830 it was delivered to Charleston on the ship Niagara. The new engine was given the unusual name Best Friend of Charleston and trial runs began immediately over the six -mile right-of-way. Historians do not agree on the date of the regularly scheduled run. But sometime between December 25, 1830 and January 15, 1831 the first trip was made, an event attended by great ceremony. The amazed passengers were carried over the new road at the breath-taking speed of 21 miles an hour, to the accompaniment of the regular firing of a small field piece mounted on one of the cars. This was the first time a steam engine pulled a passenger train over a stretch of track, on a scheduled run, in the United States. Before long, the new railroad recorded another rather unpleasant first - the first locomotive explosion. On June 17,1831, at the end of a run, the fireman, annoyed by the noise of steam escaping from a safety valve, held the valve leaver down. The resulting explosion injured four men and wrecked the engine. There were tow immediate results - the valve levers were placed out of reach of everyone except the engineer, and the railroad placed a barrier car (a flatcar piled with cotton bales) between the engine and the rest of the train. The engine was rebuilt eventually and re-named the Phoenix.
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