Bulletin - United States National Museum (1956) (14598015928)

Identifier: bulletinunitedst2101956unit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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replicas Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. Relics only 14 Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. Assembled relics and 1 4 on operable replica Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Operable replica 22 Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Operable replica 24 South-Carolina Canal and Rail-Road Co. Operable replica 26 Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Co. Relic and an operable 32 replica Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Operable original and 38 Transportation Co. replica Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Operable original 47 i Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Operable original 47 \ \ Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Operable original 47 \ ! Utica and Schenectady Rail Road Operable original 53 Name unknown Operable original 55 Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Operable replica 58 I Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road Co. Operable original 60 General Mining Association Operable original 63 Name unknown Operable original 67 ii Mochiasport Railroad Operable original 69 \ Baltimore and Ohio Rail Rood Co. Operable original 71
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8 ALTOGETHER, perhaps a quarter of a million steam loco-motives have been built in America. From the firstthey have been objects of interest to young and old. Theyhave been depicted and photographed untold times, and asa result a wonderfully accurate pictorial record of their con-struction and appearance has been built up. The locomotives themselves, however, as they wore outor fell into disuse were usually destroyed for the value of theirscrap metal. This process has been greatly hastened in recentyears by the trend toward the use of diesel-electric and othertypes of motive power. Few remain of the busy multitudes ofsteam locomotives that served so well in building the Nationson this continent. The picturesque and once popular steamerhas today become the vanishing iron horse. It is proposed to deal here only with the relics and replicasof the historic steam locomotives used during the pioneerdays of railroading on this continent, in the period 1825-1849. Of these, only 11 have surviv