This locomotive, though it was not a success in practice, appears to have been the first to turn a wheel on a regular railway within the United States.

It was a seven days' wonder in New York when it arrived in May, 1829.

Then Allen shipped it to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company had a tramway to bring down coal from the mountains to the terminal of the canal.

On the crude wooden rails of this tramway Allen placed the Stourbridge Lion and ran it successfully at the rate of ten miles an hour.

But in actual service the Stourbridge Lion failed and was soon dismantled.
Pass now to Rainhill, England, and witness the birth of the modern locomotive, after all these years of labor.