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  • 45NorthAmericas Great LoopПутешественник
    All that remains of the original Stourbridge Lion; the boiler, one cylinder, and both rocking beamsInventor and businessman Peter Cooper devised and built this small coal-burning locomotive in 1830Early passenger cars based on the stagecoachBuilt in 1832 for the B&O Railroad, No. 2 is a “grasshopper" named for its resemblanceDriving machinery of a 'grasshopper' type locomotiveB&O engine No. 13 Lafayette marked the transition from the vertical to the horizontal boilerA Grasshopper. The first American locomotive with a covered cab. Worked for B&O from 1836 to 1892.Driving cylinders and valve-gear of a 3-truck Shay logging locomotiveUniversal joints and bevel gear drive on the Shay locomotive bunker and tender trucksThis engine hauled troops and supplies for the Union army in the American Civil WarThe only surviving locomotive built by the Wilmarth Locomotive Works. It served in the Civil War.Early 'American' type 4-4-0 built for B&O by the Mason Machine Works in Taunton, MassachusettsDesigned by B&O's Master of Machinery J. C. Davis in 1875 and built in the B&O Mt Clare ShopsDesigned in 1888 by Andrew Cromwell, B&O Supervisor of Motive Power, to haul coal to BaltimoreEngineer's No. 6-ET brake valvesLarge boiler on this Camelback locomotive required two butterfly firedoors at fireman's positionAir brake instruction rackHeavy Baker valve gear on Chesapeake & Ohio RR articulated 2-6-6-6 Allegheny

    Day 32A: More from the B&O RR Museum

    15 мая, Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

    The 40-acre historic B&O Railroad Museum site at Mt Clare is a National Historic Landmark and is the original site where the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad founded America’s first commercial railroad in 1827. The site is recognised as the birthplace of American railroading, saw the first passenger and freight station in the United States and was the first railroad manufacturing complex in the country.Читать далее

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    Bronwyn Woodhead

    ПутешественникWe can see you had a great day Ferg!

    15.05.2025ОтветитьПереводить

    I would like to see thst museum [Terry]

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