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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., A pioneer railroad and how it was built. (search)
pleasure to read before this society a paper upon an Eighteenth Century Enterprise, and to call therein especial attention to the attempt made to utilize the power of steam in dragging the slow barges along the placid waters of the Middlesex Canal in 1818-19. Before the first steamboat had made its trips in Boston Harbor, a steam canal boat had been propelled through our ancient town of Medford. The following season, while the steamboat Eagle was making her daily trips from Boston to Hingham, the same steam canal-boat, Merrimack, made trips from Boston to Chelmsford, and thence up the Merrimack river to Concord, N. H. While this particular attempt was not continued as a permanent arrangement, as was then hoped it would be, it proved that the thing could be done. Under more favorable circumstances, steam does drag the slow barge, and the great ocean greyhounds seem not to have reached their utmost limit, either in size or fleetness. But how about the driving of the rapid