Figure 8i. — Orange, 1837, built by Seth Boyden for the 

 Morris & Essex Railroad. From Angus Sinclair, Development 

 of the Locomotive Engine (New York, 1907). 



I could not take the time to go with Mr. Boyden to 

 the shops of the State road. I gave him a letter to 

 John Brandt, who took him over the road on the plat- 

 form of one cf our outside connected engines. On his 

 return he expressed himself as perfectly satisfied as to 

 safety and steadiness of running. He had much to say 

 as to the advantage he should gain in adhesion by 

 placing his driving-wheel axle close to the fire-box. I 

 do not know what took place between him and Brandt, 

 but I was surprised at his saying, he had decided on 

 8-by-24-inch cylinders, and he laughingly said, that 6 

 inches over us and 10 inches over Baldwin was prob- 

 ably as much as it was safe to venture, but he believed 

 the time would come, when the economy of fuel would 

 demand it; that three feet stroke even if gearing had to 

 be used, would be adopted; such was his faith in cut- 

 offs and expansive use of steam, and when he had 

 wi irked out a problem to his own satisfaction in his 

 mind, there was no changing him. All the three en- 

 gines he built had cvlinders 8 inches by '->4 inches 

 stroke. 



The third engine he built was not taken by the rail- 

 road that the two first were built for. and he took it to 

 Cuba. The last time I saw Mr. Boyden was shortly 

 after his return from Cuba. He then spoke hopefullv 

 of the success cf what had taken him there. He had 



invented and used for a long time a system of furnaces 

 for burning wet tan, the heat of one chamber drying 

 the tan in the adjoining one, the escaping gases from 

 which were ignited in a combustion chamber common 

 to all the separate tan chambers. There were no 

 grates, the tan being burned from the top. Mr. Boy- 

 den had, through a Mr. Hollibird, of Cincinnati, es- 

 sayed to introduce his system of furnaces for burning 

 and generating steam by the wet bagasse, as it came 

 from the rolls of the sugar mill (the same as he had 

 burned wet tan) in Louisiana. Mr. H. had only made 

 it practically successful; hence his experiments in Cuba 

 were under his own management. 



If Mr. Boyden was now living he would be the last 

 man to claim outside-connected engines as his system. 

 As I have stated in a previous paper, 248 I never claimed 

 it as an invention, but the battle for the practical intro- 

 duction in our American system of locomotives de- 

 volved mainly on me, all of which Mr. Boyden was 

 fully aware of, and having ridden on an engine that 

 had been in successful use for over two years before 

 his first engine was turned out, he was perfectly safe 

 in assuring the experts "that it would not jump the 

 track; if it did, the sooner the better." [64] 



248 Chapters 22 and 24 of the present work. 



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