THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1913.
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BABES OF RAILROAD POWER
Collection of Steam Locomotives
from Waybaok Days.
SOME PRO&EESS IN 75 EAES
Anclrnt Tjpen In the Xnllonnl Mn
nenm Cbntrnktrtl trlth the
"Sterl Mnnter" ot
lh this day of rtuhlng locomotives and
luxurious electrlo-llghted Pullman cars,
the ordinary traveler hardly realizes that
Just seventyflvo years ago the first
steam locomotive In America made Ita
maiden tun.
Uncle 8am has carefully and thoroughly
gathered together evidences und lluetra
tlons of railroad progress In the United
States and dedicated to tho memory of
these onca "steftl mnnntArfi' n Infer rnr
ner In tho old building of the National
museum. Tho collection Is undoubtedly
one of the most magnlglcent exhibits In
the world.
At any time of tho day one may find a
score of visitors examining tho two
largest locomotive engineering relics In
tho transportation section, the locomo
tives ."John Bull" nnd "Stourbridge
Lion." Although these are the only two
real locomotives In the collection, others
that have marked railroad progress from
tho time of a coach drawn by horses to
the present day rushing monsters aro
represented by models.
Theso two are, however, of unusual ln
terest. The John Bull stands upon a sec
tion of track mado from the flr steel
rails manufactured In the United States.
Tho John Bull Is the oldest Intact toco
motive in this country. In length of
servlco It Is doubtful If It woujd have to
take second place to any. Anothor,
however, has the honor of being the old
est In America.
Karaom Pioneer.
The famous pioneer of travel was com
pleted by Oeorgo Stephenson at his
workshop In Newcastle-on-Tyno, Eng
land, late, In 1830. It was built for the
Camden 'Ambo'y railroad, and was
named engine No. 1, and later christened
"John Bull." It was shipped to Phila
delphia on the Allegheny July 14, 1K31,
In tho presence of the New Jersey leg
islature, the governor and moru than a
score of United States senators, the John
Bull mado Its first trip aver steel strap
rails from Bordentown, Pa.,, where "a rail
road monument now stands. It was pi
loted by Isaac Dripps. From November,
1831. the now famous engine romalned In
active servico nearly eight hours a day,
until tho close of the civil war. It was a
Splendid piece of workmanship, but hat
uratly somewhat crude, apcordlng to present-day
standards. Those familiar with
the engine which now pulls a train ot a
dozen cars at a mlle-a-minute clip won
der how in tho world this bit of Junk op
erated successfully. It was somewhat al
tered and added to during all these years,
but substantially It is the name as when
It left the shops of-the famous Stephen
won. It had been In service but three weeks
When a New Jersey cow, grarlng peace
Sully on the tracks, was killed. .Tho
owner at once Instituted suit and won
his case. In addition, the i engine was
nearly wrecked. It was decided that a
cow-catcher was necessary. A huge,
flat, rambling pilot was built. It was
suppprted by two wheels and pushed
ahead of the engine. It worked 'success
fully, for the court records of New Jer
sey show no suits against the-.railroad
after the installation of the cWcatchcr.'
From "Wood to, Iron, . ,u
Finally the locust wooM drivers were
replaced by balanced Iron wheelet A
steam whistle was placed, upon the
boiler. Oiling devices were attached and
later the style of "brakes was changed.
Stephenson may have constructed his
engine awkwardly, but he certainly built
It to run forever. It puffed about the
state of New Jersey for thirty-one years.
It was then Idle and stored In a damp
shop for twenty-eight years more, when
finally, In 1893, the same John Bull mode
the . run from Philadelphia to Chicago
with a train1 of two antiquated cars un
der ts own steam. All during the
Columbia exposition It hauled flat cars
about the grounds to the delight of
thousands of railroad men. After the
exposition It returned to Philadelphia un
der its own steam.
Isaac Dripps, the first man to bo sta
tioned at its throttle, died shortly after
the engine's first trip, and no descend
ant of his could be found to take his
Some of the County Exhibits at the Nebraska State Fair
Nine times out of ten
place In the old open cab. This "ark"
of railroading weighed more than 2.000
pounds. Its boiler was thirteen feet -long
and three and .one-half feet .wide, cov-.
ered with wood. It had wheels four and
a half feet In diameter, with locust wood
spokes,' and a steel tire shrunk on In the.
same way that an ordinary wagon wheel
rim is shrunk on today.
Standing nearby Is what appears to be
a sprinkling cart of the vintage of tho
year MXXX It Is, however, what Is left
of the famous Stourbridge Lion, made
In Stourbridge, England , and shipped
with two similar locomotives to (thls
'country for tho use of the Delaware A
Hudson company. They were to be used
for hauling coal cars. They were com
pleted In 1S2S and wero received in New
York the next year.
.The Stourbridge" Lion, driven by Ho
ratio Allen, made but one trip. It ran
from Honesdale-V Pa., about one and
one-naif 'mlTes,' where because "of a 'lowH
jcoypred bridge, It could go no further.
It was reversed and brought back amid
the ishoutlng 6f thousands and the boom
of cannon. , .
Tracts that had been laid for .the Lion
and lis mates were too light and the
steam "devils" were laid aside The
tracks were filled In with dirt, and the
mules, patiently pulled the cars that had
been buflt for the Lion. For nearly fif
teen years no attempt was mado to again
try steam for pulling loaded coal cars.
Mules had always done tho work and
done It well; the engine was too heavy
and failed.
Consigned to the, scrap heap, tho Stour
bridge Lion rusted BWayr Some -of Its
many parts'tyere stolenmapy were taken,
ana uuuzra xor oiner purposes. . xno uon
had a walking beam and two cylinders.
Tho walking beam and one of the cylin
ders have disappeared.
Striking Contrasts.
There la something really pathetlo "In
the wreck of this old engine, which In Its-
day stood for far more than docs the
mighty machine which now treats dis
tance with contempt. One gazes with awe
on Its rusted .boiler and Its tiny wooden
wheels. In all this engine weighed less
than ten tons. The modern engine weighs
upward cf S00 tons. In those days, how
efer, everything was made from wood.
The tracks, which found the Lion too
heavy for them, were simply wooden
rails with strips ot Iron screwed along
their top, In B.lx.-foot lengths.
One turns suddenly around and sees a
model of, the .early locomotive Best
Friend, This Is made, accurately to scale
and Is faithfully true to life. This was
tho first locomotlvo built for actual serv
ice on a railroad In the United States.
Experiments had been previously made In
various segtlops of tho east, but the Best
Friend "arrived" first.
The Best Friend made Us debut in 1831
,w,hen It made a run from Augusta, .Go.,
to Charleston, S. C, a distance of but Hi
miles., it ;was. then the longest railway
In the world, The Best Friend was not
oven -a- fair propheoy of what was to
come. later in engine construction. With
its wooden frame, wooden wheels, up
right boiler and perpendicularly mounted
cylinders, It did not even, remotely sug
gest tho huge mogul or Baldwin of today.
It was built In New Tork and shipped to
Charleston In a sailing vessel.
Among the rarities of the railroad col
lection are many old photographs and
drawings showing how the trains of sov-ehty-flve
years ago appeared One shows
the Best Friend hauling a flat car and
two coaches filled with curiously dressed
peopje. On the. .flat car, are a field piece
and a man holding an, American flag.
Npt the least interesting exhibit In the
transportation corner are various things
which show the evolution of yie manu
facture of -steel rolls, spikes and methods
of fastening them to the ground.
Thr first to iRsn,
John Stevens., was the first man In
America to build a locomotive which
"ran." It was nothing more than an ex
periment After reading accounts ot
Stephenson's success In England, he madt
an engine which he ran on a small cir
cular' track 'n Now Jersey. His engine
worked with a set of cogs and never de,
veloped a. speed of more than three miles
an hour. It had upon It the first .tubular
boiler built In America. This boiler Is
shown in the old Smithsonian building.
Uncle Sam has gathered In every
epoch-making locomoU o which he can
law Ids hands on. Those that havo beon
lost are represented by models.
Peter Cooper built an engine In Balti
more In 1829 which he named Tom Thumb.
It drew a car with twenty passengers
thirteen miles In seventy-two minutes and
returned In fifty-seven minutes. This all
happened on the Baltimore & Ohio road ,
when it was in its infancy. Cooper gave
locomotive construction a powerful im
petus and It was a comparatively short
Umq. Jbefore. countless designs and sup
posed Inventions were tried out.
Finally came the famous Grasshopper.
This was the last word In locomotives.
Learned engineers said that this type
would exist forever,. Tho model In the
Smithsonian show that it had two walk
lng beams, similar to those always shown
on pictures ot a Mississippi river steam
boata dozen cranks and many valves
and lovers.
Mathlas Baldwin's famous engine, Old
Ironsides, Is shown In miniature. This
was used tor passenger service in Penn
sylvania in 1832. It was used until about
1840, and then consigned to the scrap
heap. Also, thero Is a model of the Fly
ing Dutchman, a machine which derived
Its propelling power from a treadmill
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