What is the Oldest Train ever Steam Engine or Coal Name it!?

Question

Trains go way back i want to see if you know the oldest train and the name and were it was at !and if that train still in operation today!Thanks nice answers please!

Answer 1

First:  steam locomtives started burning COAL, as they were built in Britain.  In other countries they burned wood, because was the best fuel available.  After the 20´s most railways changed from coal to fuel-oil, because was cheaper.

The oldest steam engines are preserved in Britain but they aren´t unable to operate.  The old steam locomotive in operation in US was cited by other person, the oldest in Europe is one preserved in Austria

Answer 2

William Mason (B&O 4-4-0 #25, oldest operating steam locomotive in the world, built by William Mason Locomotive Works in Taunton, MA in 1856. She was rebuilt in the spring of 1998 at Strasburg for Warner Brothers who used her in a movie remake of The Wild, Wild West.

Answer 3

They started with steam burning wood, then they discovered coal, and went to it. In some engines though both were used, wood to start, coal to keep it going, coal kept heat longer and was cheaper.

Answer 4

The steam engine! It is fueled by either coal or wood!

Answer 5

From Wikipedia...

The first successful locomotives were built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick. In 1804 his unnamed locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time. The locomotive only ran three journeys before it was abandoned.

In 1813, George Stephenson persuaded the manager of the Killingworth colliery where he worked to allow him to build a steam-powered machine. He built the Blucher, the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive. The flanges enabled the trains to run on top of the rails instead of in sunken tracks. This greatly simplified construction of switches (called "points" in UK) and rails, and opened the way to the modern railroad.

Answer 6

The first train service was started in India, with steam engine by East India Company. The steam engine was a welcome to all people for a century, then replaced with coal engine. Do u know one fact, India has the largest rail network which we are proud of.