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The Lawrence, a 4-4-0 type, was a twenty-five-ton passenger engine constructed in 1853 and named for her builder, the Lawrence Machine Shop of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Presumably she was built for a New England railroad but available records do not show which one. Unlike Baldwin, Mason, Rogers, Schenectady, Pittsburg and other great locomotive builders, the Lawrence plant turned out iron horses as a side line to its regular machinery business. It manufactured locomotives only during a brief period - 1852 to 1857. The Lawrence shop contributed nothing new to locomotive design, being content to follow standard practice and produce fairly good motive power without giving much thought to improvements. The lithograph reproduced here, however, has one unusual feature: very few advertisements showed an engineer (at left) casually leaning on the tender.
COVERDALE AND COLPITTS COLLECTION
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