Identifier: bulletinunitedst2101956unit (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Figure 58.—Lion as nowexhibited at University ofMaine.
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Today the locomotive, jacked up so that its four wheels canbe made to operate, is a valued relic at the University ofMaine (figure 58). It has been stated that the Lion cost $2,700, exclusive ofthe tender. The bore and stroke of its cylinders are 9Va inchesand 17 inches, respectively, and the diameter of the fourwheels is approximately 42^2 inches. The gauge is standard,56V2 inches. The locomotive alone weighs 9 tons. The final survivor of this group of early locomotives is theMemnon (figure 59), built for the Baltimore and Ohio in 1848by the New Castle Manufacturing Co., New Castle, Del.,under subcontract to Matthias W. Baldwin. It is one of asmall group of similar freight engines built by Baldwin, whowon the contract as a result of his bid in reply to a B & Oadvertisement in the American Railroad Journal ofOctober 1847. The design of the Memnon class of locomotives followedclosely that of the Dragon, a slightly smaller locomotive built 71 by Baldwin in late 1847 and placed on th

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