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We all have our hobbies. Mine is writing about history. I have come to know others. They’re passionate. Like Betty Davis of Wrightstown, who collects historic Bucks County postcards, and Neil Wood of Levittown, whose inspiration is railroad history.
Lately I’ve been in touch with Chuck Denlinger of Downingtown, who reacted to my account of Bucks County’s George Scott who drove the famous John Bull locomotive on it’s last full run, passing through Bucks en route to Chicago as featured attraction of the 1893 world’s fair.
The locomotive, built in England in 1831 and shipped to Philadelphia on a sailing ship, was one of the first steam engines to operate in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Railroad carefully maintained and preserved the engine in Bordentown, New Jersey.