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Showing posts with label steam locomotive. Show all posts

believed to be the oldest photograph of an American locomotive.

The John Stevens, and it's enormous chimney, designed to suppress sparks on the combustible grasslands of America. The two sideways proj...
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L'Aigle (The Eagle) was designed with the largest wheels ever fitted to a French locomotive at 9ft 4in. It was built in Batignolles by Gouin et Cie in 1855 and in that year appeared at the International Exhibition in Paris.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/aigle/aigle.htm
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