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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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ip Island Railroad, and the Meridian,Brookhaven and Natchez Railroad. The latter road wasacquired in 1891 by the Illinois Central Railroad Co. 56 In the spring of 1893 the locomotive was rebuilt at theMcComb, Miss., shops of the Illinois Central and then wastaken under its own power from McComb to Chicago, a dis-tance of 815 miles. There it was exhibited at the WorldsColumbian Exposition. It has since been seen in manyplaces, including the old Field Museum at Chicago, theLouisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, the Semicentennialof Wheeling, W. Va., held in June 1913, and the ChicagoWorlds Fair in 1933 and 1934. The tender usually seen withthe locomotive and marked Natchez & Hamburg R. R.is not the original one, but is of a considerably later period. The Mississippi is a wood burner, weighs 7 tons, has wheels43 inches in diameter, and, according to Sinclair, has cylin-ders with a bore and stroke of 9V2 and 16 inches. Its tractiveforce is said to be 4,821 pounds. 57 A One-Armed Billy
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Figure 49. — Full sized operable replica of Lafayette, built in 1927 by Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad Co. An operable replica (figure 49) of another locomotive ofthe same period also exists. The Lafayette, built in 1837 byWilliam Norris of Philadelphia, was the first Baltimore andOhio locomotive to have either a horizontal boiler or sixwheels. As B & O No. 13, with a 4-2-0 wheel arrangement,it represented the first stage of the transition from the old4-wheeled vertical-boiler types. It was the first of a group ofeight ordered from Norris and was placed on the road inApril 1837. According to the railroad historian J. Snowden Bell, theselocomotives were known as one-armed Billys, a term de-rived from the name of the builder and the single connectingrod on each side. Some of them were in service with lightlocal passenger trains as late as 1857, but by 1839 it hadbeen realized that they could not meet the rapidly increas-ing requirements of the expanding B & O railroad system.As a

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