Re: US- B&O Mystery William Galloway Norris 4-2-0

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

I could not open Ken Rices photo, did anybody else get it?
I got only a page of type?? ;o) Rod
Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
3abfd5ef@iridium.webone.com.au">news:3abfd5ef@iridium.webone.com.au...
> Thanks for clearing that up, it has been annoying me for some time now.
>
> Much relieved.
>
> Ken Rice wrote in message <99oj77$quh$4@bob.news.rcn.net>...
> >In article <3abf2f1e@iridium.webone.com.au>, cullend@webone.com.au
says...
> >
> >>Today I have posted 3 photos on alt.binaries.pictures.rail of a 4-2-0
> Norris
> >>locomotive. The loco displays clearly the name "William Galloway", and
the
> >>4 wheel tender is clearly labelled "B&O RR". I believe the photos were
> taken
> >>in the 1920s or 1930s at an expostion or fair.
> >
> >>The mystery arises because as far as I can tell the B&O did not have a
> >>Norris 4-2-0 named William Galloway, at least before 1840. See roster
> >>1830-1840 below.
> >
> >>In one photo (no 3 of 3) the loco carries additional identification in
the
> >>form of a white 13 on a round black target. This could be an exhibit
> number
> >>in a procession at the exposition, or it could be a raod number. B&O 13
> was
> >>a Norris 4-2-0 built 1837 and named "Lafayette", a replica is an exhibit
> at
> >>the B&O museum.
> >
> >>If indeed the William Galloway was B&O 13 (or replica of 13) why was it
> >>renamed ?
> >
> >>Or maybe Norris delivered more 4-2-0s after 1840?
> >
> >>Any info. gratefully received.
> >
> >>B&O Roster 1830 - 1840
> >>clipped
> >
> >The following is from "The Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of the
> >Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 1827-1927," Baltimore 1927. I posted a picture
of
> the
> >William Galloway from the book on alt.binaries.pictures.rail.
> >
> >Page 158: The "William Galloway" named after the grandfather of C. W.
> Galloway,
> >the present vice-president in charge of operation of the Baltimore and
> Ohio, is
> >a precise working replica of the famous Lafayette, the first locomotive
> upon
> >the road to have the horizontal type of boiler.
> >
> >Page 162: 1837 - William Galloway (Lafayette). Built by Richard Norris of
> >Philadelphia, originator of the Norris type of American locomotives
famous
> for
> >adhesive power. The first six wheel (4-2-0) locomotive on the Baltimore
and
> >Ohio. Inclined cylinders; main rod connecting one pair of driving wheels
> >located ahead of the firebox; horizontal boiler with dome top cylindrical
> >firebox; inside hook motion. Sister engine of the George Washington,
which
> >successfully operated on the Columbia Incline, Philadelphia. Engine
> reproduced
> >at the Baltimore and Ohio Mount Clare shops, 1927.
> >
> >The William Galloway hauls two reproduced four-wheel open, drop side,
> gondola
> >cars used in 1831 for hauling barrels of flour and boxed freight
protected
> by
> >canvas. This was the first type of freight car.
> >
> >--
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> >
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