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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the locomotive, about2 feet long (figure 3), was made in the National Museumin 1898 (USNM 180241) and is exhibited there. A full sizedoperable replica, constructed in 1928 at the Altoona shops ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad Co., was demonstrated (figure4) at the Stevens Institute of Technology on November23, 1928, upon the occasion of the inauguration of HarveyN. Davis as president of the Institute. It was given by thePennsylvania Railroad to the Museum of Science and In-dustry at Chicago in 1932, where it is now exhibited. Another replica of the Stevens locomotive, made by thePennsylvania in 1939, appeared in the railroad pageant atthe New York Worlds Fair in 1939 and 1940, and for a timein 1941 was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Station in NewYork City. In June 1941 it was placed on exhibition in themuseum of Stevens Institute, where it remained until March1943. At that time it was returned to the Pennsylvania Rail-road Co., and has since been stored in their enginehouse atTrenton, N.J.
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Figure 3. — Model ofStevens locomotive, inNotional Museum. Theboiler is shov^n outsidethe sheet-metal shellv^hich normally sur-rounds it.

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