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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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0) formerly lent by him to the Museum hasbeen added to the collection (USNM 314615). A 4-4-0 ofexquisite workmanship in brass and steel, the model is 21inches long and has a gauge of 2^2 inches. It was constructed during the 7-year period from 1907 to1914 by George Boshart, a toolmaker of Brookline, nearPhiladelphia, Pa. All rotating and reciprocating parts areoperable, though the boiler is apparently not capable ofgenerating steam. There is no tender with the locomotive,none having been built. It is not definitely known what, if any, original locomo-tive the model represents, but some of its details are simi-lar to those of locomotives built at the turn of the centuryby the Schenectady Locomotive Works. While it has beenstated that Boshart patterned the model after a Pennsyl- 88 vania Railroad locomotive with which he was familiar, incertain of its details the model does not appear to justify thisclaim. The number on the model represents the year inwhich its construction was started.
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Figure 70.—Model of an American-type locomotive of about 1 900. British Locomotive of about 7 905 In the national collection is an operable model (figure 71)of a British locomotive of the period of about 1905. Made bythe well known English model makers Carson and Co., andgiven in 1933 to the Museum by Frank A. Wardlaw andFrank A. Wardlaw, Jr., the model (USNM 310584) repre-sents the Caledonian Railway Co. Mo. 903, a 4-G-O withinside cylinders. The length of the locomotive and the6-wheeled tender is 45 inches and the gauge is 3^A inches.A locomotive of similar appearance, though not necessarilyidentical, is described and illustrated in the British technicaljournal Engineering for August 31, 1906 (p. 299). The elder Wardlaw stated that the model was built byCarson for Sir Henry Lopes, and that he acquired it fromCarson when Sir Henry turned it in on a new one. Wardlaw 89 believed this gasoline-fueled model to have been the firstmodel locomotive ever built with a flash boiler. A letter

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