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  ANNUAL 
  EEPOET 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  19 
  2 
  9 
  

  

  its 
  day, 
  and 
  which 
  had 
  attracted 
  quite 
  a 
  lot 
  of 
  attention, 
  especially 
  

   from 
  other 
  manufacturers 
  in 
  Philadelphia. 
  This 
  might 
  have 
  con- 
  

   stituted 
  his 
  sole 
  achievement 
  in 
  steam 
  engineering 
  had 
  it 
  not 
  been 
  

   for 
  Franldin 
  Peale, 
  the 
  proprietor 
  of 
  the 
  Philadelphia 
  Museum. 
  Peale 
  

   wanted 
  a 
  working 
  model 
  of 
  a 
  locomotive 
  and 
  train 
  to 
  exhibit 
  in 
  the 
  

   museum. 
  He 
  knew 
  of 
  the 
  admirable 
  work 
  that 
  Baldwin 
  had 
  done 
  

   with 
  his 
  steam 
  engine, 
  and 
  after 
  much 
  pleadmg 
  succeeded 
  in 
  gettmg 
  

   the 
  latter's 
  promise 
  to 
  make 
  the 
  model 
  for 
  him. 
  Baldwin's 
  acquaint- 
  

   ance 
  with 
  locomotives 
  was 
  limited 
  to 
  pictures 
  and 
  descriptions 
  of 
  

   Stephenson's 
  Rocket 
  and 
  other 
  Enghsh 
  locomotives. 
  He 
  obtained 
  

   permission 
  to 
  examine 
  the 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  John 
  Bull, 
  which 
  had 
  

   arrived 
  unassembled 
  at 
  Bordentown, 
  N. 
  J. 
  Armed 
  with 
  these 
  data 
  

   he 
  set 
  to 
  work 
  and 
  had 
  the 
  model 
  operating 
  under 
  its 
  own 
  steam 
  on 
  

   April 
  25, 
  1831. 
  

  

  Again 
  Baldwin 
  returned 
  to 
  the 
  making 
  of 
  tools 
  for 
  bookbmdmg, 
  

   but 
  within 
  a 
  short 
  while 
  he 
  was 
  requested 
  to 
  build 
  a 
  full-sized 
  locomo- 
  

   tive, 
  this 
  time 
  by 
  the 
  officers 
  of 
  the 
  newly 
  organized 
  Philadelphia, 
  

   Germantown 
  & 
  Norristown 
  Railroad 
  Co. 
  They 
  had 
  seen 
  his 
  model 
  

   in 
  the 
  museum 
  and 
  were 
  so 
  pleased 
  with 
  it 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  determined 
  

   to 
  have 
  Baldwin 
  build 
  a 
  full-sized 
  machine 
  for 
  them. 
  He 
  had 
  an 
  

   anxious 
  time 
  with 
  this 
  attempt, 
  however, 
  due 
  mainly 
  to 
  the 
  lack 
  of 
  

   proper 
  equipment 
  and 
  tools. 
  For 
  instance, 
  to 
  bore 
  the 
  steam 
  cylinders 
  

   all 
  he 
  had 
  was 
  a 
  chisel 
  fixed 
  in 
  a 
  block 
  of 
  wood 
  and 
  turned 
  by 
  hand. 
  

   Blacksmiths 
  able 
  to 
  weld 
  iron 
  bars 
  over 
  1^ 
  inches 
  in 
  thickness 
  were 
  

   rare. 
  Baldwin 
  stuck 
  to 
  it, 
  however, 
  and 
  Old 
  Ironsides 
  was 
  tried 
  out 
  

   on 
  November 
  23, 
  1832. 
  After 
  three 
  days' 
  trial 
  it 
  was 
  put 
  in 
  regular 
  

   service 
  on 
  the 
  railroad 
  and 
  continued 
  in 
  use 
  for 
  over 
  10 
  years. 
  The 
  

   railroad 
  officials 
  were 
  greatly 
  pleased 
  with 
  this 
  new 
  accession, 
  treated 
  

   it 
  most 
  tenderly 
  and 
  kept 
  it 
  home 
  on 
  rainy 
  days. 
  Their 
  fo'st 
  news- 
  

   paper 
  advertisements 
  giving 
  the 
  train 
  schedules 
  stated 
  that 
  the 
  

   locomotive 
  "will 
  depart 
  daily 
  when 
  the 
  weather 
  is 
  fair" 
  but 
  that 
  

   "the 
  cars 
  drawn 
  by 
  horses 
  will 
  depart 
  when 
  the 
  weather 
  is 
  not 
  fair." 
  

   Baldwin, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  had 
  had 
  enough 
  of 
  locomotives 
  and 
  re- 
  

   marked 
  to 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  friends, 
  "This 
  is 
  our 
  last 
  locomotive." 
  

  

  It 
  looked 
  as 
  if 
  there 
  would 
  be 
  as 
  much 
  diversity 
  in 
  design 
  of 
  locomo- 
  

   tives 
  in 
  America 
  as 
  there 
  had 
  been 
  in 
  marine 
  engines 
  up 
  to 
  that 
  time. 
  

   No 
  American 
  locomotive 
  had 
  set 
  the 
  fashion 
  as 
  Stephenson's 
  Rocket 
  

   had 
  m 
  England 
  and 
  Europe 
  generally. 
  All 
  five 
  locomotives 
  entered 
  

   in 
  the 
  Baltimore 
  & 
  Ohio 
  Railroad 
  competition 
  had 
  scarcely 
  one 
  point 
  

   of 
  resemblance 
  among 
  them. 
  Cooper's 
  Tom 
  Thumb 
  had 
  an 
  upright 
  

   boiler, 
  as 
  did 
  the 
  Best 
  Friend, 
  but 
  the 
  boiler 
  on 
  the 
  West 
  Point 
  was 
  

   horizontal. 
  Old 
  Ironsides 
  was 
  a 
  four-wheeled 
  engine, 
  had 
  a 
  horizontal 
  

   boiler, 
  and 
  was 
  modeled 
  essentially 
  on 
  the 
  English 
  practice 
  of 
  that 
  

   day, 
  but 
  the 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  designed 
  by 
  Horatio 
  Allen, 
  chief 
  engineer 
  

   of 
  the 
  Charleston 
  & 
  Hamburg 
  road, 
  was 
  a 
  kind 
  of 
  Siamese 
  twin, 
  with 
  

   two 
  horizontal 
  boilers 
  joined 
  stern 
  to 
  stern. 
  

  

  