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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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Figure 1 3.—Full sized operable replica of Stourbridge Lion,built in 1932 by Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corp. At that time, the three crank rings from the wheels of theAmerica, together with a fourth, dupUcate ring made at thetime of the reassembly, were unwittingly incorporated in thereconstruction. It is this version of the Stourbridge Lion that isnow on exhibition. The gauge of the reassembly, further-more, is 56V2 inches, while that of the original is recorded as51 inches. Also exhibited in the National Museum is a small non-operable model (USNM 215649) of the Stourbridge Lion withits tender, together about 2 feet long (figure 12), made byC. R. Luscombe in 1901 and rebuilt by Paul E. Garber in1920. 20
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Figure 14. — Replica of Stourbridge Lion at New York Worlds Fair, May 20, 1939. A full sized operable replica (figure 13) was constructed in1932 by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corp. and lentby them to the Wayne County Historical Society at Hones-dale, Pa. The cylinder bore of the replica is S/ie inches, thestroke 36 inches. Since the outside dimensions of the originalcylinder are approximately those of the replica, its workingdimensions are probably also the same. From time to time the replica has appeared in variousrailroad pageants, including those at the Chicago WorldsFair in 1933 and 1934, the New York Worlds Fair in 1939(figure 14) and 1940, and the Chicago Railroad Fair in1948. Otherwise, it can be seen on exhibition at Honesdale,the scene of the trials of the original Stourbridge Lion. 21 Peter Cooper and Phineos Davis No original parts remain of one of the best known earlylocomotives, the Tom Thumb. A full sized operable leplica(figure 15), however, was made in 1926 by

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