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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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42 Among the many other changes to the John Bull were theaddition of a bell, a whistle, and a headlight, as well as adial-type steam pressure gauge (figure 32), and the reloca-tion of the axle springs, the water cocks, the safety valve, andthe steam dome. At one time a cab was installed at the rearof the locomotive, and an 8-wheeled tender was in use(figure 33). The tender as seen today is basically original, but much ofthe woodwork was in such poor repair that it was completelydisassembled in 1910 and stored, the rotted pieces of woodbeing discarded. In 1930 the tender was completely restoredat the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., andsince that time has been exhibited constantly with thelocomotive. Prior to its presentation to the National Museum, the JohnBull had appeared at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel-phia in 1876, and at the Exposition of Railway Appliances Figure 32.—Jofin Bull on display in National Museum. Note controls and modernsteam pressure gauge.
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at Chicago in 1883. In early 1893, the locomotive and tenderwere taken from Washington to New York City, and onApril 17. proceeded under steam, pulling two old cars of theperiod of 1836 (figure 34), to the Worlds Columbian Exposi-tion at Chicago. It arrived without mishap on April 22 afterhaving covered 912 miles. The locomotive and tender werereturned to the Museum in December 1893 after havingmade daily demonstration runs at the exposition. They re-turned to Washington under steam via Pittsburgh, Altoona,Harrisburg, and Baltimore. The next time the locomotiveleft the Museums confines was for a brief sojourn at the Fairof the Iron Horse in 1927 (figure 35). More recently it ap-peared at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1933 and the NewYork Worlds Fair in 1939 and 1940. In early 1940, a full sized operable replica of the John Bulllocomotive (figure 36) was made at the Altoona shops of thePennsylvania Railroad Co. The cylinder dimensions of 11by 20 inches were apparently known by the shops a

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