. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e Valve Boalon. MaM DUNERCAR CLOSETS DUNER CO. K^^o Locomotive EllSlllvCnllS A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXII 114 Liberty Street, New York, August, 1919 No. 8 A Mason Locomotive on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1857 The accompanying illustration, which isreproduced from an excellent photographmade prior to 1864, shows engine No. 232,which was one of six built for the Balti-more & Ohio Railroad, by Wm. Mason &Co., of Taunton. Mass., and put
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e Valve Boalon. MaM DUNERCAR CLOSETS DUNER CO. K^^o Locomotive EllSlllvCnllS A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXII 114 Liberty Street, New York, August, 1919 No. 8 A Mason Locomotive on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1857 The accompanying illustration, which isreproduced from an excellent photographmade prior to 1864, shows engine No. 232,which was one of six built for the Balti-more & Ohio Railroad, by Wm. Mason &Co., of Taunton. Mass., and put in service By J. Snowden Bell of men carrying on the work. Theylabored with some success to producelocomotives that did the work of haulingthe trains with fair economy, and theyworked out proportions that provided therequired strength without carrying a brass in bands and coverings of domes,-sand boxes, wheel covers, steam chests-and cylinders with great vagaries of painton other parts, conveyed the impressionone receives from looking at die garmentsof an overdressed woman- Those were. in August, 1857. The Potomac River andChesapeake & Ohio Canal appear in thebacksround, and the locomotive and itslocation will be familiar to the few nowliving who knew them. When William Mason began buildinglocomotives in 1852, the ideas of art har-mony as applied to locomotive designingappear to have had no place in the minds liurdcn of material, Imt noaltention appears to have been bestowedupon the outward appearance of loco-motives, so far as making the visible out-lines harmonious, was concerned. Therewas a great deal of ornamentation putupon some of the parts, but the effect onaesthetic taste was often grotcst|uc wherebeauty was aimed at. Elaboration of I be days when the red smoke stack andVermillion painted wheels were regardedas a mark of distinguishing beauty. Itwas then considered the correct thing ti>spend hundreds of dollars on the paintingof portraits or picturesque
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