. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . weremade in the motive power of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road, naturally reached the distinctly marked stage ofwhat may properly be termed its modcrni::ation. Therecord clearly shows that this was commenced by Henr\^Tyson, who was appointed Master of Machinery in June,1856, and occupied that position until the latter part of1859. Mr. Tyson was one of the working organization,consisting of three departmental officers, by whom, underthe executive head of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., afte
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . weremade in the motive power of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road, naturally reached the distinctly marked stage ofwhat may properly be termed its modcrni::ation. Therecord clearly shows that this was commenced by Henr\^Tyson, who was appointed Master of Machinery in June,1856, and occupied that position until the latter part of1859. Mr. Tyson was one of the working organization,consisting of three departmental officers, by whom, underthe executive head of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., after which he was elected Fourth Vice-President of theNew York & Erie Railroad, now the Erie Railroad, incharge of the Machinery Department. The difficultieswith which this road was then contending were so greatthat Mr. Watson, the president, and Mr. Tyson, soon re-tired from office, the term of Mr. Tyson being only abouttwelve months. In 1870, Mr. Tyson prepared a plan for the improve-ment of Jones Falls, in Baltimore, for which he wasawarded, by the Committee of Arbitration, the sum of. The Typical Mason Locomotive of 1857. Fig. 2 its of>erations were conducted, viz: Wendell Bollman(designer of the Bollman truss bridge). Master of Road;Henry Tyson, Master of Machinery; and William , Master of Transportation. A short reviewof his work in regard to modification will indicate theextent to which his mechanical ability is entitled to fullerrecognition than it has ap]>arently received, and be ofinterest as an item of the history of locomotive engineer-ing in the United States. Henry Tyson, the accompanying portrait of whom willbe recognized as an excellent likeness, by those who knewhim, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1820, and was in milling, on Commerce street, in that city, asa memljer of the firm of Tyson & Dungan. Succeedinghis term of service on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, hewas elected President of the Baltimore City PassengerRailway Co., and he
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