[Broadside] The Old Time News. The First Steam Locomotive and Passenger Train ever Run in America

Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Good. Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Illustrated broadside (31x36cm) featuring illustrations of both the first English and American steam engines. A few small nicks to edges; folds; vertical split down center with tape mending to verso and recto along bottom edge; Good overall. Includes stories behind the first ever runs of the English Locomotive Engine No. 1 and the American John Bull, including the passenger list of the latter. We locate three holdings in OCLC of earlier editions with larger formats, at Library of Congress and Princeton.