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

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@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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