The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America

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Author

Oliver, Smith Hempstone

Title

The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas with a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U. S. National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin 210

Credits

E-text prepared by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)

Language

English

LoC Class

TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery

Subject

Locomotives -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51976

Release Date

May 4, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN NORTH AMERICA
2. 2.ADVERTISEMENT
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.FOREWORD The Vanishing Iron Horse
5. 5.Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas Representing the First Quarter-Century Of Steam Locomotives in North America — America’s First Rail Locomotive — Two British-Built Locomotives — Peter Cooper and Phineas Davis — The West Point Foundry Association — National Museum’s John Bull — Three Grasshoppers — Two Midwestern Locomotives — A One-Armed Billy — A Rocket in America — A Canadian Relic — The Final Decade
6. 6.SUPPLEMENT Models, in the National Museum, of Locomotives Not Included in This Work — Trevithick Locomotive, 1804 — Trevithick Locomotive Catch-me-who-can, 1808 — Stephenson Locomotive Rocket, 1829 — Baldwin Locomotive Old Ironsides, 1832 — Davis and Gartner Locomotive Arabian, 1834 — Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor Locomotive Sandusky, 1837 — Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor Locomotive General, 1855 — American-Type Locomotive of about 1890 — New York Central Locomotive 999, 1893 — American-Type Locomotive of about 1900 — British Locomotive of about 1905 — British Locomotive, 1905 — Pennsylvania Atlantic-Type Locomotive, 1907 — General Electric Locomotive, 1926 — B & O Hudson-Type Locomotive Lord Baltimore, 1935 — Lima Northern-Type Locomotive, 1937 — General Electric Locomotive, 1938 — American Locomotive Co. Hudson-Type Locomotive, 1938 — Baldwin-Westinghouse Geared Steam-Turbine Locomotive, 1944 — General Motors Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 1945
7. 7.PICTURE CREDITS
8. 8.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
9. 9.BIBLIOGRAPHY
10. 10.INDEX
11. 11.FOOTNOTES
12. 12.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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