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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.
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wheelbase of112% inches and a weight of 29,200 pounds, has a tractiveforce of 2,323 pounds. Its cylinders have a 9-inch bore andan 18-inch stroke, and it operates on a steam pressure of 90pounds per square inch. The replica was built in 1927 for the Fair of the IronHorse and later appeared at the Chicago Worlds Fair in1933 and 1934, the New York Worlds Fair in 1939 and1940, and the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948 and 1949. Ithas also been taken several times to the west coast, where ithas been used in the filming of motion pictures. In the fall of1955 it was used in northern Georgia in a film based on thestory of the famous Civil War locomotive General (see p. 84). For many years the replica carried the nameplate WilliamGalloway, this name having been given it shortly after it wasbuilt, to honor a famous early locomotive engineer of theBaltimore and Ohio. Today, bearing the correct nameplate,the Lafayette is usually to be seen at the B & O Museum inBaltimore. 59 A Rocket in America
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Figure 50. — Rocket, built in 1838 by Braithwaite of London, England, and usedby the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad until 1 879. Photo was made about1900. The second oldest of the three complete British locomo-tives of the 1825-1849 period extant in North America is theRocket (figure 50), built in early 1838 for the Philadelphiaand Reading Rail Road Co. by Braithwaite of London. Itwas the first of eight Braithwaite locomotives purchased bythat railroad between 1838 and 1841. The correct name of the builder of the Rocket, according to Dendy Marshall, wasBraithwaite, Milner and Co. The two brass makers plates on the opposite sides ofthe front of the locomotives boiler read Braithwaite & Co./ London./ March1838. However, as they are of the same size and shape as the shop plates of thePhiladelphia and Reading in the early 1890s, and as there was no plate on the loco-motive in the late 1880s (see figure 5 1), it is quite likely that these plates are notoriginal with the locomotive

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