Rail cast in the US?

摘要

I am referred to you by my old friend Michael J. Swinnerton of Elmsall Lodge, Main Street, Sinnington, YORK Y062 6SQ. He has already pursued the following problem through the National Railway Museum in York, with no useful result. The Richmond Railway Museum here has recently acquired from its discoverer a section of cast-iron rail from the roadbed of one of the earliest colliery railways in Virginia, or in the United States for that matter. This railway operated just north of Richmond, in Henrico County, to a mine at the north end of the Richmond Coal Basi, from 1838 to about 1850.