Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #2547

ID# 53,480

Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #1709

ID# 37,509

Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #2509

ID# 53,476

West Shore Railroad Steam Locomotive #13 at Frankfort, New York in 1883

ID# 27,209

New York Central Lines Steam Locomotive #43 at West Albany, New York in July, 1910

ID # 2,177

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1888, builder # 3,927.

Catskill Mountain Railway Steam Locomotive #5 "Alfred Van Santvoord" at Catskill, NY in June, 1915

ID # 2,304

From Burr Hubbell
According to Best (p202):
Builder Number 51126, built 5-1912, 49" drivers, 13x18" cyl.
Sold (along with 2nd No. 4) to the M.L. Davis Lumber Co., Oak Grove, Alabama for use on their Oak Grove & Georgetown R.R. 1920.

Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #1709

ID # 37,509

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1905.

West Shore Railroad Steam Locomotive #83 at West Albany

ID # 27,211

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.

Catskill Mountain Railroad Steam Locomotive #5 "Alfred Van Santvoord

ID # 2,450

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1912.

Sierra Railroad Steam Locomotive #3 in May, 1948

ID # 25,465

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1891.

Sierra Railroad Steam Locomotive #3 in May, 1948

ID # 25,483

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1891.

Erie Railroad Steam Locomotive #1696 at Middletown, New York in October, 1940

ID # 37,507

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1905, builder # 31,146.

The General

ID # 896

THE GENERAL

The Civil War's most famous locomotive, the General, a 1-4-0 woodburner, was built in 1855 by Rogers. Ketchurn and Grosvenor at Paterson, New Jersey. On April 12, 1862, twenty-two Union spies headed by James J. Andre's seized this engine and three boxcars when the train made a breakfast stop at Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia. They sped northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, damag-ing railroad property en route in a bold move to split the Confederacy and end the war quickly. Confederates chased them 87 miles, first afoot, then with a rail push-car, and then aboard three different locomotives. Each engine covered part of the distance, the last one being the Texas. The raiders left the General, after she ran out of fuel, and fled. All were caught; eight were hanged. Later, the General hauled Confederate munitions and troops. Retired in 1886, she was on exhibition for many years in Chattanooga Union Depot.

KEAN ARCHIVES