No record exists to show that the _America_ was ever used, and its subsequent history as a locomotive is unknown. Two other locomotives were built by Foster, Rastrick and Co. for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. As these were not delivered to Rondout until after the _Lion_ had demonstrated the inadequacy of the track at Honesdale, they were not sent there, but were instead stored at Rondout, where all trace of them has been lost. It is thought they were destroyed by fire while in storage. [Illustration: Figure 7.—Combining different methods of transportation was common practice in the early days of railroading. The Delaware and Hudson as late as 1866, for example, carried coal by rail from the mines of Scranton and Carbondale, Pa., to its canal at Honesdale, Pa., and thence on barges by way of Port Jervis, Ellenville, and Rondout, N. Y., to New York City. On some early railroads, horses drew the cars on level stretches, but in hilly country where grades were very steep, gravity roads with switchbacks and inclined planes were often used. The inclined plane consisted of a set of rails over which units of the train could be raised or lowered by mechanical means. Horses, water power, or a stationary steam engine, often located at the top of the slope, were among the sources of power.] In 1890, Lindsay and Early of Carbondale, Pa., deposited one of the two cylinders (figure 8) of the _America_ in the National Museum (USNM 180922). It has a 9-inch bore and a 24-inch stroke, and the piston (figure 9) is fitted with two compression rings. (The location of the other cylinder is today unknown.) Earlier, in 1888, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. had given to the Museum several locomotive parts, all thought to have been from the _Stourbridge Lion_. It has been established, however, through correspondence with E. A. Forward, formerly of the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, and with the firm of Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns, Ltd., that the three crank rings (USNM 180030-C) received at that time are actually relics of the _America_. [Illustration: Figure 8.—Cylinder of _America_, in National Museum.] [Illustration: Figure 9.—Piston from cylinder, at about twice the scale of figure 8.] [Illustration: Figure 10.—Walking beams of _Stourbridge Lion_, in National Museum.] [Illustration: Figure 11.—_Stourbridge Lion_ partially reassembled from original parts in National Museum. Frame and wheels are not original, and the crank rings are undoubtedly from the _America_.]