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The Highland Light. a 4-4-0 or American type which William Mason built at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1867 for the Cape Cod Railroad (now part of the New Haven system), was one of America's most graceful iron horse. Mason created "melodies cast and wrought in metal," according to Matthias N. Forney, himself a great locomotive designer. "He was a wonderfully ingenious man and embodied with his ingenuity a high order of the artistic sense, so that his work was always most exquisitely designed." mason declared that locomotives should "look somewhat better than cookstoves on wheels." A distinctive feature of the Highland Light was the pairs of decorative brackets that joined the hubs of her tender wheels. Mason's ornamental monogram was placed proudly between her driving wheels.
COVERDALE AND COLPITTS COLLECTION
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