http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thumb_(locomotive)
The steam locomotive.
I believe you mean to "hit" or "tap" the horse not beat it and you would use a "whip" to urge the horse on.
The "iron horse" was the name given to the steam locomotive as the Trans-Continental Railroad was built. It was how the native populations of the areas the railroad was built through could understand and describe a locomotive, which was a technology they had never before seen. The locomotive was described as being "like a horse" because it pulls "wagons" (railroad cars) and travels long distances; it was distinguished from a living horse by being made of iron and only running along the steel rails laid down by workers.
It is the name of the first railroad steam engine in the U.S, invented by Peter Cooper in 1830.So Tom Thumb: First Railroad Steam Engine...Fun fact:In a race between the engine and a horse, the horse won. Yet the B&O railroad owners were convinced that steam engines were the engines of the future.The Tom Thumb was also the name of the small boat in which explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders underwent extensive exploration south of Sydney, Australia, including the circumnavigation of what was then Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).
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its a union station cargo locomotive drive by greive no more
The rocket locomotive refers to Stephenson's Rocket, which was the name of a steam locomotive developed in 1829 by Robert Stephenson. Stephenson was a railway engineer.
The name of the first train was a locomotive. A locomotive is fueled by burning combustible coal, oil or wood to produce steam.
The name of the fist steam powered locomotive was rocket .
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