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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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s, Ketchum & Grosvenor Locomotive Sandusky, 1837 The Sandusky, first locomotive built by the firm of Rogers,Ketchum & Grosvenor of Paterson, N. J., is represented inthe Museums collection by a 2-foot-long nonoperable model(figure 66) of the locomotive and its tender. The model(USNM 180245) was built for the Museum in 1888 byD. Ballauf Notice of the firms intention to produce locomotives wasgiven in the American Railroad Journal for December 24,1836, and the original Sandusky was constructed during thefollowing year. Intended for the New Jersey Railroad andTransportation Co., it was built to the gauge of that road—58 inches. However, after a trial trip on October 6 betweenPaterson and New Brunswick, it was purchased for the MadRiver and Lake Erie Railroad by that roads president,J. H.James of Urbana, Ohio. It was delivered to Sandusky, Ohio, on November 17, atwhich time not a foot of track had been laid. The engine wasused in the construction of the road, which in consequence
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Figure 66.—Model of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor Sandusky, 1 837. 83 was built to the gauge of the engine. This fact has been givenas the reason why the legislature of Ohio at one time passedan act requiring all railroads built in Ohio to be of 58-inchgauge. On April 11, 1838, regular trips for the conveyanceof passengers commenced between Bellevue and Sandusky,a distance of 16 miles, and the locomotive Sandusky was used. The Sandusky resembled the early Stephenson engines insome respects, but differed principally in having a 4-wheeledleading truck, the wheels of which were 30 inches in diam-eter. The two driving wheels, made of cast iron and withhollow spokes and rims, were 54 inches in diameter. Thecrankshaft throws were counterbalanced by a method ofbalancing devised by Thomas Rogers, who had filed a patentapplication on it dated July 12, 1837. This consisted of hav-ing the part of the wheel rim opposite the crank throw castsolid, while the rest of the rim was hollow. The driv

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