line would have to pass over extraordinary grades through the 

 almost impenetrable jungle of Panama. The idea soon became 

 established in the minds of the Panama officials that the Sellers plan 

 might provide the only feasible means of opening their line. 



Early in September 1848 George wrote to his brother Charles in 

 Cincinnati : 



My prospects of succeeding with my locomotive is good and improv- 

 ing — although it is of necessity slow work or rather an uphill business, 

 I have not yet made any attempt to form a company, but have devoted 

 all my expectations[?] to having it adopted for some road.''- 



He added that he expected to stay in New York another five or six 

 weeks, but he did not return to Cincinnati until late December. 



The model was returned to Cincinnati and stored on the third 

 floor of Greenwood's foundry. ^^ Sellers later described as much as 

 he knew of the fate of model : 



I left it in the attic of the Greenwood Works and I supposed it was 

 destroyed at the time those works were burned [1852] but shortly before 

 Greenwood's death [1885] he informed me that it went to Columbus, 

 Ohio and was used to run a work shop. He gave names, but I was 

 unable to trace it. At that time Greenwood's mind had so failed that 

 his account was not coherent. I have since heard, that the engine with 

 the grip wheels taken off was exhibited at the Cincinnati exposition as 

 the work of some of Greenwood's apprentices. It may still be in 

 existence. ^^ 



It is, although its true identity has been completely obscured since 

 it was given to the Ohio State Museum, Columbus, in 1903-04 by 

 L. B. Davies. While visiting the museum in August 1959, I noticed 

 this curious model on display and was immediately struck by the 

 antiquity of its mechanical arrangement: the Bury boiler, inclined 

 cylinders, round side rods, and the attachment of the main rod to 

 the rear driving wheel. These features, so reminiscent of the early 

 Eastwick and Harrison 4-4-0, indicated that the model was pat- 

 terned after a machine built before 1850. Little was known of the 

 model, but it was believed to be connected with a pilot invented by 



^-September 2, 1848, Peale-Sellers papers. 



^3 J. L. Whetstone to G. E. Sellers, August 5, 1859, ibid. 



^ See footnote 81 above. 



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