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From www.guardian.co.uk - March 7, 2013 2:16 AM
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The Baltimore Railroad, America's first common carrier, was launched on 28 February 1827. Passengers rode in horse-drawn carriages until the Tom Thumb locomotive was built in 1830.

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