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The handsome model of the locomotive Old Ironsides, built by 

 Matthias Baldwin in 1832, constructed at considerable expense by the 

 Baldwiu Locomotive Works, and presented by them to the Museum, is 

 one of the most valuable accessions of the year. This model, accurate 

 in every detail, a faithful miniature of the early handiwork of the 

 founder of the company which has sent locomotives to every quarter 

 of the globe, will be a great aid to the future historians who may wish 

 to place upon record the facts connected with the beginnings of loco- 

 motive building in America. The original u Ironsides" hauled the first 

 passenger train in the State of Pennsylvania. 



Through the courtesy of the Steel Street Railway Company of Johns- 

 town, Pennsylvania, who presented the Museum with fourteen sections 

 of street rails, and three sets of joint fixtures, it has become the pos- 

 sessor of a nucleus of a collection, which it is to be hoped may soon be 

 expanded until it shall illustrate the history of the street railway — pre- 

 eminently an American invention in the beginning, which has since been 

 carried to every pact of the globe. It is highly important that the his- 

 tory of a system which has had so much to do with the growth of every 

 American city should be preserved. 



It is to be desired that other friends of the Museum will add to this 

 nucleus by collecting early forms of street rails and track appliances. 



Through the kindness of Mr. F. W. Webb, of the London and North- 

 western Bail way, of England, whose numerous contributions have been 

 acknowledged in previous reports, the Section has been enriched by a 

 series of graphic photographs of the exterior and interior views of the 

 railway carriages occupied by the Queen of England, and other members 

 of the royal family, in their journeyings by rail, to different parts of the 

 kingdom. The arrangement and decorations of these carriages, especi- 

 ally that reserved for H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, are in marked con- 

 trast to the palatial "Special" cars used by American railway officials 

 and men of wealth. 



Among the railroad relics received is "the bell of the old locomotive 

 Rahway, cast in 1838. This bell was one of the first alarm-bells ever 

 placed upon a locomotive, the bells which preceded it being generally 

 used to communicate signals to the engineer by the conductor or 

 brakeman. For this bell, as well as for a section of track, consisting of 

 rails and wooden joint blocks, in use for many years on the New Jersey 

 Railroad between Jersey City and New Brunswick, the Museum is 

 indebted to Mr. James B. Smith, of Newark, New Jersey, one of the 

 oldest supervisors on the Pennsylvania Railroad system. 



Another valuable relic is a section of the first heavy iron rail rolled 

 in America, a gift of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This rail is f| 

 shaped in section and was rolled for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 

 Company, in 1*1 1, by the Mount Savage Boiling Mill in Alleghany 

 County, Maryland. To commemorate this event the Franklin Institute 

 of Philadelphia awarded a silver medal in October, 1844, to the pro- 



