[QCWA] QCWA Chapter 91's website updated: 12 more photos from B&O
Museum trip added
Richard Rucker
rrucker at verizon.net
Fri May 5 17:16:53 EDT 2006
We just received permission from the B&O Museum to post these
additional photos:
Matt Norloff, KG4URU, in the cab of Clinchfield #1
Phil Paullin, KG4DVC, & wood-burning engine #1
Len Hook, KG6ZR, and the B&O carriage car
British-built Stourbridge Lion, first steam engine run in US - 1828
boiler for the Stourbridge Lion
Peter Cooper's "Tom Thumb" demo'ed to the B&O directors in 1830
Grasshopper: steam engine first used in service by B&O, 1835
the new roundhouse roof
engine #1, engine 592, & three cars; hardwood-finished turntable
engine #25; the funnel-shaped stack indicates its a wood-burner
car used to ensure adequate tunnel clearance
telegrapher's desk
telegrapher's key & sounder
These additional photos can now be found here:
<http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum78.html>
Dick Rucker, KM4ML
webmaster,
QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91
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