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Painting by Carl Rakeman (1878-1965)/Courtesy Federal Highway Administration
This day (exactly178 years ago), in 1830, the locomotive Tom Thumb pulls ahead in a famous one-on-one race between muscle and machine. But, in the end the horse wins.
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