Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 80 original illustrations. See 51976-h.htm or 51976-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51976/51976-h/51976-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51976/51976-h.zip) Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN NORTH AMERICA [Illustration: Replica of the Lafayette (see p. 58) as it appeared in the fall of 1955, during the making of a motion picture in northern Georgia. For the picture, which was based on the story of the famous Civil War locomotive General (see p. 84), this “One-Armed Billy” of the 1830’s was disguised as the Yonah, of the Cooper Iron Works Rail Road, and is shown here as it was operating on the Tallulah Falls Railway. (_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 [Illustration: FOR THE INCREASE AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG MEN · SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE · WASHINGTON · 1846] Smithsonian Institution · Washington, D.C. · 1956 ADVERTISEMENT The scientific publications of the National Museum include two series known, respectively, as _Proceedings_ and _Bulletin_. The _Proceedings_ series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original papers based on the collections of the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups. Copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, are distributed as published to libraries and scientific organizations and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects. The dates at which these separate papers are published are recorded in the table of contents of each of the volumes. The series of _Bulletins_, the first of which was issued in 1875, contains separate publications comprising monographs of large zoological groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several volumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, catalogs of type specimens, special collections, and other material of similar nature. The majority of the volumes are octavo in size, but a quarto size has been adopted in a few instances. In the _Bulletin_ series appear volumes under the heading _Contributions from the United States National Herbarium_, in octavo form, published by the National Museum since 1902, which contain papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum. The present work forms No. 210 of the _Bulletin_ series.