Boston & Providence Railroad No. 17 Daniel Nason

Boston & Providence Railroad No. 17 also named, Daniel Nason is an American type (4-4-0) coal burner locomotive built in the Boston & Providence Railroad's shops in Roxbury, MA, in 1858 for the Boston & Providence Railroad.
The locomotive used to joined the Old Colony Railroad Co., as #170 in 1888, when the latter took a 99 year lease on the B&P. The New York, New Haven & Hartford took over the lease in 1893 and, in 1905, #170 was leased to Purdue University in Lafayette, IN.
It is now seen on static display at the National Museum of Transportation.
==Trivia==
*This is the only surviving example of "Dutch Wagon" practice where the steam cylinders are inside the locomotive frame, a design popular prior to the Civil War.
**The "Daniel Nason" is also the oldest steam locomotive in the Museum's collection and one of the oldest surviving locomotives in the nation.
* It was designed by George Smith Griggs, Master Mechanic of the Boston & Providence from 1834 until his death in 1870. Griggs was one of the foremost designers of his day, and introduced many innovations to steam locomotive design including the firebox brick arch and the diamond stack.
*In 1951, it was sold to John Leahy of Danbury, CT, and then, in 1982, donated to the museum by the "Friends of the Danbury Collection".
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