Beggs No. 2 Toy Steam Locomotive
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Beggs No. 2 toy locomotive was manufactured by Eugene Beggs of Paterson, New Jersey between 1871 and 1906. The locomotive operated on live steam and ran on a special tracks manufactured by Beggs. This locomotive is not a model of any particular locomotive, but was a toy engine with a 2-2-2 wheel arrangement, smokestack, sand dome, and steam dome. The locomotive has a cab for the fireman and engineer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.328926
label: catalog number
content: 328926
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, locomotive
label: Object Name
content: locomotive, toy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 12 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 6.35 cm x 32.385 cm