necessary to use only the lower stuffing boxes for the valve 

 rods, and so the upper openings were permanently closed by 

 suitable fittings. There are but two positions for the reverse 

 lever, as was the case with the original valve gear, and the 

 valves are always worked full stroke. 



The absence of definitive facts concerning the early history 

 of the No. 3 is challenging, and it would add much to rail- 

 road history if in the near future the complete story could 

 be developed as a result of further study of the locomotive 

 itself, and of the written records. 



Of the many hundreds of locomotives built by Holmes 

 Hinkley, the only one extant is the interesting old Lion (fig- 

 ure 57), built in 1846 in Boston at the Hinkley and Drury 

 plant. It is not Hinkley's first locomotive, as has often been 

 said, nor is it his first Lion, as his 22d locomotive, built in 

 1844 for the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, also bore that 

 name. 



The second Lion, now preserved in the Crosby Mechani- 

 cal Laboratory at the University of Maine at Orono, Maine, 

 was built for the Machiasport Railroad (later called the 

 Whitneyville and Machiasport Railroad) running between 

 the towns of Whitneyville and Machiasport in Maine. 



Figure 56. — Controversial Peoples' Ra\\y/ay No. 3, built in the 1840's, as it 



appeared in 1923. 



