The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America

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Footnotes

1The Museum catalog numbers of these are, respectively, USNM 180149, 209826, 180030-A and 277700, and 180030-B.

2Davis and Gartner have an earlier claim to engineering fame, for in conjunction with John Elgar they had constructed in York, in 1825, the first American-built vessel with a metal hull, the sheet-iron steamboat Codorus.

3Although he spelled his name Gartner, and it appears in that form in the early annual reports of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co., and in all subsequent histories of that road, his tombstone (in lot 34, section H of the Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pa.) bears the name in its Anglicized form, Israel Gardner.

4The correct name of the builder of the Rocket, according to Dendy Marshall, was Braithwaite, Milner and Co. The two brass maker’s plates on the opposite sides of the front of the locomotive’s boiler read “Braithwaite & Co./ London./ March 1838.” However, as they are of the same size and shape as the shop plates of the Philadelphia and Reading in the early 1890’s, and as there was no plate on the locomotive in the late 1880’s (see figure 51), it is quite likely that these plates are not original with the locomotive. They were probably made and installed at the time it was refurbished for exhibition at Chicago in 1893.

5Railroads are known not to have existed in Mexico prior to 1850, and although locomotives of the 1825-1849 period could possibly have found their way into that country at some later date, none are to be found there today, according to advice from the Mexican National Railways (Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico). Central America falls outside the scope of this work, as do the Islands of the Caribbean. However, a railroad was opened in Cuba in 1837, and another was started across the Isthmus of Panama in 1849 and completed in 1855 (its first locomotive was received soon after the midcentury mark had been passed), so there is the remote possibility that somewhere in this area the remains of a pre-1850 locomotive could exist.

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