. Bulletin - United States National Museum. of the Baldwin-builtPioneer, the cowcatcher of the Memnon was not installedoriginally. This class of locomotive, which burned bituminous coal,introduced to the B & O the grate having a rocking bar inthe center, with fingers on each side that interlocked withprojections on fixed bars in front and behind. The rockingbar operated from the footboard. The Memnon has appeared with other engines in the his-toric collection of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at manyexpositions, fairs, and railroad pageants. Its permanent home 73 is now that railroads transpo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. of the Baldwin-builtPioneer, the cowcatcher of the Memnon was not installedoriginally. This class of locomotive, which burned bituminous coal,introduced to the B & O the grate having a rocking bar inthe center, with fingers on each side that interlocked withprojections on fixed bars in front and behind. The rockingbar operated from the footboard. The Memnon has appeared with other engines in the his-toric collection of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at manyexpositions, fairs, and railroad pageants. Its permanent home 73 is now that railroads transportation museum at numbered 57, the Memnon was renumbered 13 onJanuary 1, 1884 (figure 60), and when on exhibition atSt. Louis in 1904 it was incorrectly labeled Dragon. Today, however, bearing its correct name and number, itstands on the roster as the oldest of all extant B & O freightlocomotives, as well as the last of the locomotives to have sur-vived the first quarter-century of railroading in 74 SUPPLEMENT Models, in the National Museum, of Loco-motives Not Included in This Work Certain of the locomotives, locomotive parts, and modelsdescribed in the foregoing pages have been noted as being inthe collection of the United States National Museum. Inaddition to these, the collection of the Museum includes 21models of locomotives that do not fall into the scope of thiswork, as the originals they represent are either no longer inexistence, are of too recent vintage, or were not used inNorth America. Among them are five operable models—four steam and one electric. The originals represented by many of these models wereinvolved in notable events in the history of railroading ormark major steps in its progress. For these reasons, and inorder to provide the reader with a complete catalog of thelocomotive collection of the United States National Museum,a brief description of each will be given on the pages thatfollow. 75 Trevithick Locomotive, 180
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