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The Baltimore and Ohio #1 "Grasshopper" type steam locomotive known as the "John Quincy Adams".
This is the oldest still existing locomotive built completely in America and is on display at Carillon Historic Park in Dayton, Ohio which has a surprising number of well kept and displayed rail equipment. An added benifit of this display is that the engine has been jacked up a couple of inches above the rails and an electric motor lets you watch the pistons and drive rods work.
This is the oldest still existing locomotive built completely in America and is on display at Carillon Historic Park in Dayton, Ohio which has a surprising number of well kept and displayed rail equipment. An added benifit of this display is that the engine has been jacked up a couple of inches above the rails and an electric motor lets you watch the pistons and drive rods work.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 1061px
File Size 198.9 kB
That hole is actually the firebox. The grasshopper is a cabfoward design. The cab is on the front of the locomotive and the fireman feed fuel into the opposite end. Look closely at the photo displayed on the engine and you'll notice how the tender is attached to the engine opposite the cab.
Aha! Now it all makes sense. The cab forward design reminds me of some self propelled logging tractors built in the late 1890s. The contraption was steered with skids and moved along at a blazing speed of 1 MPH. The Steersman was warned that if he ever had to abandon the wheel, it was best for him to run forward of the tractor, because bailing out to the sides still had the potential for a person to get caught up in the machinery, or fall under the treads.
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