Leo Daft

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Small electric locomotive Ampère, built by Daft in 1883

Leo Daft (1843 – 1922) was an English professor and builder of early American urban railroads.

He led the construction of an electrical railroad in Newark, New Jersey, in 1883, of the Baltimore and Hampden Electric Railway in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore in 1885, and of the Los Angeles Electric Railway, the first one in that city, in the 1880s.

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