TRANSPORTATION BY STEAM. 
This division of transportation, occupying the East Pavilion, 
is designed to illustrate, largely through full-sized reproduc- 
tions and originals, the evolution and development of Perma- 
nent Way, Structures, Motive Power, Equipment and Appliances. 
The nucleus of this representation is in the extensive collection 
made by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company for the 
Columbian Exposition, and purchased by the Field Columbian 
Museum. This collection embraces thirty-eight full-sized working 
reproductions, covering the period from the initial idea of steam 
propulsion on land, 1680, to the first “Camel” engine of 1848, and 
nine original locomotives, including examples of the practice fol- 
lowed from 1832 to 1876. In addition there are nearly eighteen 
hundred uniformly mounted and framed examples in original 
wash-drawings, detail plans, photographs, prints, and lithographs, 
illustrating the evolution and development of the railway in every 
land where the locomotive whistle has been heard. 
The interesting collection made by the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company for the Exposition is also in the Museum, and it tells in 
a graphic and instructive manner the story of the progress of this 
great railroad corporation by series of models and originals. The 
Baldwin Locomotive Works contributed the tull-sized working 
reproduction of the “ Old Ironsides,” the first of the Baldwin 
engines, and the Rogers Locomotive Works the full-sized working 
reproduction of the “Sandusky,” the first Rogers engine. The 
Philadelphia & Reading Company contributed the “Rocket,” the 
original No. One on that road; the Illinois Central Company 
the “Mississippi,” the original first locomotive in the Gulf States; 
the Chicago & Northwestern Company the “Pioneer,” the orig- 
inal first locomotive west of Chicago, and the Mount Washington 
Railway the original engine, the “Peppersauce,” the first moun- 
tain-climbing locomotive in the world. The World’s Exposition, 
through the Chief of the Department of Transportation, pre- 
sented to the Museum the “Samson” and the “Albion,” the origi- 
nal first and second locomotives in Nova Scotia, together with the 
original first passenger car in that country and the two original 
first cars drawn on rails by a locomotive in the world, those from 
the Merthyr Tydvil tram road in South Wales. 
