St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-23
ANCIENT AND MODERN.
The Exhibit OF the Baltimore &
Ohio Starts for the Column
bian Exposition.
Included in ~the Train Is a Loco
motive in u Sc for Sixty
Years.

BALTIMORE, April %. - A special
train of ten locomotives and twelve cars,
illustrative of tine evolution and deyel-
opment of the locomotives of the world,
left here for Chicago tonight. 1t is part
of the exhibit to be shown at the worlds
fair by the Baltimore q Ohio company.
Mai. j. &. Pangborn, the exposition eX-
ecutive of the company, has been
engaged for many months iu
this country and abroad in
the collection of interesting ma
terial and data to complete the Balti-
more & Ohio exhibit. He views the train
load of relics which left here tonight as
the greatest possible production of the
world. Among the old LOGON otives are
the Atlantic, the first of the grasshOp-
per type, and the MaZeppa, the first of
the 'crab" type. Unlike the john Bull.
which has gone to Chicago i'll the
remodeled form of 1853, both
the Atlantic and the MaZep-
pa are in their original form.
The former was built in 1882 and the
latter in 1886; the Atlantic having been
in use over sixty years. Among other
historical locomotives is the Rocket, the
first locomotive to be used on the Pblla-
delphia & Reading road. 1t was Dullt
by Stephenson i'll England in 1885 and
imported here in 1886. The Dragon, an
old Mason locomotive of 1S4S in the train,
also an old Mason locomotive of 1852.
an original WimanS ''cameP' OF 1850.
Perkins ten-wheeler of 1862, and the
Baltimore & Ohio No. 600, the COM
pany's model locomotive at the Phlla-
delphia centennial of 1876 and the first
passenger mogul engine ever built.
| These, together with other historical
locomotives, forwarded in the sixteen
car train, some two weeks ago, and the
tull-siZe reproductions of motive power
dating back to 1880, will show the eyo-
luton and development to the present
time.
The modern types include an eight
wheel passenger, a ten-wheel freight
and the superb 110-ton Baldwin COM
pound locomotive. which is to head tue
ROYAL Blue exhibition train, and, like
1t, done up in royal blue throughout.
Among the famous American historical
locomotives reproduced full size are the
Tom Thumb. Peter Cooper's little engine
of 1880, and the first locomotive ever
built in America; the Storbridge
Lion QS29). the first locomotive seen in
America; the Howard QS2S), the first
locomotive ever patented In America;
tl0 DcSG TIitHu \lColJ tllO Hloo iOSO-
motive on the South Carolina road; the
YORK QS3D; the Experiment QS32), the
first locomotive in the world with the
forward part or boyle; the James QS32),
the first locomotive in the world with
link motion, and the South Carolina
QS3O, the first double ender IN the
world. Also in the Baltimore & Ohio
shipment are the Experiment Qs36l.
the first locomotive in the world with
equaIizing beams and levers; the
Campbell Qs36). the first of the dis
tihctively American type OF eight
wheIers; the original Campbell QS4S(
and the original Muddiger QS42l, aud
the lafayette Norris famous locomotive
of 1887. In all there will be fifty-six
full size examples on the Baltimore q
Ohio floor space, which exceeds $4,000
square feet. Next week seven carloads
of pictures will 60 forward, which will
fill up an additional wall space of up
wards of ten thousand square feet at
the worlds fair.