. Bulletin - United States National Museum. ^>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. Figure 68.—Operable model of an American-type locomotive of about 1 890. period of about 1890. This class of locomotive was built bythe Schenectady Locomotive Works to the New York Cen-trals design, and had 78-inch driving wheels, cylinders witha bore of 19 inches and a stroke
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. ^>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. Figure 68.—Operable model of an American-type locomotive of about 1 890. period of about 1890. This class of locomotive was built bythe Schenectady Locomotive Works to the New York Cen-trals design, and had 78-inch driving wheels, cylinders witha bore of 19 inches and a stroke of 24 inches, and weighed120,000 pounds. Work on this model was commenced by the donor, the lateRobert E. M. Bain, in 1916, and it was completed aboutthree years later, only spare time having been employed inits construction. The model was given to the Museum in1928. The length of the locomotive and tender is 80 inches,the gauge is 6V2 inches, the diameter of the driving wheels is8^16 inches, and the bore and stroke of the cylinders are IV2and 3 inches, respectively. The brakes on the model are inoperative, as the actuatingcylinders for the brake system are dummies. On the otherhand, such parts as the boiler, firebox, steam gauge, watergauge, throttle, and valve motion are all operable, and thedonor has assert
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