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| ID # 11,868 |
Built by the American Locomotive Company (Schenectady) in 1915.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #1095 at Binghamton, New York
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| ID # 4,384 |
Built by the American Locomotive Company (Schenectady) in 1914.
LAFAYETTE
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| ID # 892 |
The Lafayette, a 4-2-0 type built by William Norris at Philadelphia in the fall of 1837, was the first six-wheeler on the Baltimore & Ohio, which was then nine years old and owned only eleven four-wheeled locomotives. This locomotive was a high-stacked woodburner used to haul freight. Like other iron horses of that period, she had no Cab and the engineer stood on an open platform exposed to sun, rain. wind and snow. An old report shows that during the first six months of 1841 the Lafayette covered 10,400 miles, consumed 255 1/2 cords of wood in her firebox and cost $438.10 in repairs, of which $393.60 went for workmanship and only $44.50 for material.
THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY
Monday, October 30, 2017
Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotive #2846
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| ID # 20,784 |
Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November, 1905.
Conrail Diesel Locomotive #6530 at Buffalo, New York, September 2, 1976
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| ID # 24,184 |
On April 1, 1976, Conrail took over the operations of many eastern roads to become a 17,000 route mile system with 5000 locomotives. Painted in the new Conrail colors, former Pennsy and PC U28C No. 6530, is ready to head up a freight out of Buffalo, N.Y., September 2, 1976.
Photo by Ray Lackemeyer
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Barre & Chelsea Railroad Steam Locomotive #6 Taking Water at Montpelier, Vermont in April, 1949
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| ID # 24,271 |
Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1912, builder # 37,525.
Friday, October 27, 2017
TOM THUMB and BEST FRIEND OF CHARLESTON
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| ID # 889 |
Two experimental engines that made trial runs in 1830 were the Tom Thumb (upper picture) and Best Friend of charleston (lower). Peter Cooper built the Tom Thumb in 1829 for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and drove her August 28, 1830, hauling an open car filled with B. & 0. offIcials in a race with a horse-drawn vehicle. A belt in the locomotive slipped, permitting the horse to win, but the test proved that steam power could be used on the B. & 0. to replace horses. The Best Friend of Charleston was the first locomotive to draw a train in America. Designed by E. L. Miller of Charleston, South Carolina. she was built in 1830 at the West Point Foundry in New York for the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad, today part of the Southern system. On trial runs in November and Decemher she hauled four and five carloads of passengers at speeds up to 21 miles per hour.
New York Public Library
New-York Historical Society
Thursday, October 26, 2017
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #406
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| ID # 21,178 |
Late became Savannah & Atlanta Railroad # 447.
Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern Railroad Trolley #111, Syracuse, New York
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| ID # 18,463 |
The Stourbriclge Lion
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| ID # 888 |
THE STOURBRIDGE LION
The Stourbriclge Lion, which had a lion's picture painted on her boiler front, was the first practical locomotive to run on American rails. Her four oaken wheels were fitted with iron tires. Horatio Allen of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company ordered her for hauling coal trains. Foster, Rastrick & Company built her at Stourhridge. England, in 1829, even before Stephenson built his more famous pioneer locomotive, the Rocket. She was delivered by sailing ship, then river boat and finally canal boat to Honesdale. Pennsylvania. With Allen at the throttle, she made a trial run April 8, 1829, crossing a shaky wooden trestle over the Lackawaxen Creek at about ten miles per hour. But her seven-ton weight made her unsafe to operate on the light rails of those days, and she never ran again. Parts of her may be seen today at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
Smithsonian Institution
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #27 at Oneonta, New York in July, 1914
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| ID # 3,804 |
Types of Steam Locomotives
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| ID # 887 |
Whyte's Classification System for distinguishing locomotive types by their wheel arrangements was devised in 1900 by Frederic M. Whyte, a New York Central official. Whyte divided engine wheels into three groups: pony - or leading-truck wheels, driving wheels (usually the largest), and trailing-truck wheels. The last-named were placed under the cab.. A Mogul, for example, has two pony-truck wheels, six drivers, and no other wheels hence it is a 2-6-0. Whytes system, though ingenious, does not indicate the presence or absence of a booster. the small reciprocating steam engine sometimes fastened to trailing-truck wheels to supply extra starting power. These diagrams show the best-known steam locomotive wheel arrangements. A complete all-time list would include about seventy different types.
Reader Railroad Steam Locomotive #108
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| ID # 24,120 |
Sunday, October 22, 2017
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #76
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| ID # 21,163 |
Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in January, 1887, builder # 1,179.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #812
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| ID # 3,771 |
