[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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