. Bulletin - United States National Museum. ch had been cut loose to delay the pursuers, but withmost of the raiders, after a thrilling pursuit that led them 90miles away, to Ringgold, Ga., just south of Chattanooga,Tenn.) The Museums display is constructed from a pair of modelkits, to which a great many engineering details have been 84 added. It shows two beautifully made reproductions, scaledVs inch to the foot, passing in opposite directions on a slightcurve. Each is 7 inches long. The builder, Adolph H. Schutzof Washington, D. C, in 1955 presented the model to theMuseum (USNM 313724), wher
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. ch had been cut loose to delay the pursuers, but withmost of the raiders, after a thrilling pursuit that led them 90miles away, to Ringgold, Ga., just south of Chattanooga,Tenn.) The Museums display is constructed from a pair of modelkits, to which a great many engineering details have been 84 added. It shows two beautifully made reproductions, scaledVs inch to the foot, passing in opposite directions on a slightcurve. Each is 7 inches long. The builder, Adolph H. Schutzof Washington, D. C, in 1955 presented the model to theMuseum (USNM 313724), where it had been on exhibit asa loan since 1951. Built by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor plant atPaterson, N. J., in 1855, the original General was used on theWestern and Atlantic Railroad for many years. It is now onpermanent exhibit at Chattanooga in the Union Station ofthe Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. A 4-4-0, orAmerican type, it is the earliest of this particular typerepresented in the Museums collection of ^>TS- Figure 67.—Model of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor General, 1 855. American-Type Locomofive of about 1 890 An operable model (figure 68) in the Museums collec-tion (USNM 309515), appears to represent a New YorkCentral and Hudson River Railroad 4-4-0 locomotive of the 85
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