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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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. The absence of definitive facts concerning the early historyof the No. 3 is challenging, and it would add much to rail-road history if in the near future the complete story couldbe developed as a result of further study of the locomotiveitself, and of the written records. Of the many hundreds of locomotives built by HolmesHinkley, the only one extant is the interesting old Lion (fig-ure 57), built in 1846 in Boston at the Hinkley and Druryplant. It is not Hinkleys first locomotive, as has often beensaid, nor is it his first Lion, as his 22d locomotive, built in1844 for the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, also bore thatname. The second Lion, now preserved in the Crosby Mechani-cal Laboratory at the University of Maine at Orono, Maine,was built for the Machiasport Railroad (later called theWhitneyville and Machiasport Railroad) running betweenthe towns of Whitneyville and Machiasport in Maine. Figure 56. — Controversial Peoples Ra\\y/ay No. 3, built in the 1840s, as it appeared in 1923.
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Strictly a lumber road about IV2 miles long, it was aban-doned in the early 1890s when lumber became scarce in thatregion. The Lion and a similar but slightly older Hinkleylocomotive, the Tiger, fell into disuse, and were subsequentlysold as junk to Thomas Towle of Portland. What happenedto the Tiger is today not known, but quite probably it wasbroken up for scrap. Alderman E. E. Rounds of Portland succeeded in raisingfunds to acquire the Lion for exhibition in the Fourth of Julyparade held in Portland in 1898. It then remained in Port-land on city property until 1905 when, through the efforts ofAlderman Rounds, the President and alumni of the Uni-versity of Maine, and friends of the University, it was shippedto the University to be preserved as a museum piece. Onceon the campus it was stored in various places and receivedlittle attention, until it was moved in 1929 to the then newlycompleted Crosby Mechanical Laboratory. As the result of a study made in the fall of 1929, somemissing

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