. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in 1837, but it is not certainthat this was their first locomotive. In itthe designer, Joseph Harrison, Jr., used its general use lo-day. In 1842 they builtthe Stockbridgc, an engine with outsidecylinders. The driving axle was in frontof the firebox and a pair of trailers front was a full truck, making an en-gine of the bicycle type. Rogers adopt-ed the American or eight-wheel design(patented by Henry R. Campbell, of Phila-delphia) in 1844, and of course others didthe same at variou
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in 1837, but it is not certainthat this was their first locomotive. In itthe designer, Joseph Harrison, Jr., used its general use lo-day. In 1842 they builtthe Stockbridgc, an engine with outsidecylinders. The driving axle was in frontof the firebox and a pair of trailers front was a full truck, making an en-gine of the bicycle type. Rogers adopt-ed the American or eight-wheel design(patented by Henry R. Campbell, of Phila-delphia) in 1844, and of course others didthe same at various dates. In 1848 they built some ten-wheel loco-motives for the Savanilla Railroad ofCuba, with ISJ4 x 20-inch outside cylin-ders. These are supposed to be the firstten-wheelers with outside cylinders. Mr. W. S. Hudson, who was one of thebest designers we have had in locomotivework, became superintendent of the Rog-ers works in 1852, and remained in thatposition until his death, in 1881, at the ageof seventy-two. His many patents are in-teresting to study and embody many of theideas in use TH0M.\S & STETSON OIL-BURNING LOCOMOTIVE. equalizers between the drivers for the firsttime in history. The firm soon becameEastwick & Harrison, and their Gowan& Marx and other engines are wellknown. This burned anthracite coal. In 1831-2. under the firm name of Rog-ers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, Mr. ThomasRogers established what is now known asthe Rogers Locomotive Company. The first engine was the Sandusky,built in 1837 for the New Jersey Trans-portation Company, but sold to the MadRiver Railroad after much engine weighed under ID tons. Ithad six wheels, two of them being had counterbalanced wheels and fourfixed eccentrics, both innovations in loco-motive building. Rogers was also one of the first to advo-cate using the link motion, beginning inabout 1850. and his wisdom is shown in This company is one of the few surviv-ors and is now making extensive addi-tion
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