. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 80 BULLETIN 119, IT. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. Copy of the Original Drawing of the "DeWitt Clinton," the Third Loco- motive Engine Built for Actual Service on a Railroad in the United States. Made for John B. Jervis for the Hudson and Mohawk, a Rail- road Between Albany and Schenectady, New York, in 1831, by the West Point Foundry Association. The " DeWitt Clinton " had two cylinders, 5^ inches in diameter and 16 inches stroke; four wheels, all drivers, 4^ feet in FIG. 36. PHINEAS DAVIS " GRASSHOPPER " LOCO
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 80 BULLETIN 119, IT. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. Copy of the Original Drawing of the "DeWitt Clinton," the Third Loco- motive Engine Built for Actual Service on a Railroad in the United States. Made for John B. Jervis for the Hudson and Mohawk, a Rail- road Between Albany and Schenectady, New York, in 1831, by the West Point Foundry Association. The " DeWitt Clinton " had two cylinders, 5^ inches in diameter and 16 inches stroke; four wheels, all drivers, 4^ feet in FIG. 36. PHINEAS DAVIS " GRASSHOPPER " LOCOMOTIVE, 1831 with all the spokes turned and finished. The spokes were wrought iron, hubs cast iron, and the wheels tired with wrought iron, with inside crank and outside connecting rods to connect all four wheels; a tubular boiler, with drop furnace, two fire doors, one above the other; copper tubes 2^ inches in diameter and about 6 feet long; cylinders on an incline, and the pumps worked vertically by bell crank. This engine weighed about 3J tons without water, and would run 30 miles an hour with three or five cars on a level burning anthra- cite coal. It was the first engine to run in New York State on a railroad. Cat. No. 222,113 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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