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Replica of the Lafayette (see p. 58) as it appeared in the fall of1955, during the making of a motion picture in northern Georgia.For the picture, which was based on the story of the famous CivilWar locomotive General (see p. 84), this “One-Armed Billy” of the1830’s was disguised as the Yonah, of the Cooper Iron Works RailRoad, and is shown here as it was operating on the Tallulah FallsRailway. (Color plate contributed by Thomas Norrell.)
United States National Museum
Bulletin 210
THE FIRST
QUARTER-CENTURY OF
STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
IN NORTH AMERICA
Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas
with a Catalog of Locomotive Models
in the U. S. National Museum
by SMITH HEMPSTONE OLIVER
Curator of Land Transportation
United States National Museum
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · WASHINGTON, D.C. · 1956
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The scientific publications of the National Museum include twoseries known, respectively, as Proceedings and Bulletin.
The Proceedings series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as amedium for the publication of original papers based on the collectionsof the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology,anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisionsof limited groups. Copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, aredistributed as published to libraries and scientific organizations andto specialists and others interested in the different subjects. The datesat which these separate papers are published are recorded in the tableof contents of each of the volumes.
The series of Bulletins, the first of which was issued in 1875, containsseparate publications comprising monographs of large zoologicalgroups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in severalvolumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, catalogs of type specimens,special collections, and other material of similar nature. Themajority of the volumes are octavo in size, but a quarto size has beenadopted in a few instances. In the Bulletin series appear volumesunder the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium,in octavo form, published by the National Museum since 1902, whichcontain papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum.
The present work forms No. 210 of the Bulletin series.
Remington Kellogg,Director, United States National Museum.
CONTENTS
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- Foreword: The vanishing iron horse 4