Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2008.1008.1.544Description
Black & white print. Snapshot. Image of a model of a steam locomotive engine & tender. Painted on lamp in front of cabin & on side of tender is #768. sign tacked to mount reads: "Rogers Locomotive & Machine works" "Patterson, New Jersey - United States of America".
Stamped in lower right: "U.P. File Photo".
Written on back in blue ink: "Unique feature of this early experimental locomotive was with the cab placed over the boiler. From the Annual Report of 1886 the following is taken: "the results obtained with experimental engine purchased from Wharton R. R. Switch Co., & fitted with the Wooten boiler, were so satisfactory as to warrant the purchase of other engines this type of boiler, which will make steam as freely the black coal as the ordinary boiler with the lump coal. A large savings in the value of fuel maybe looked for by increasing the number of engines by the Wooten boilers." Actually the 10 locomotives purchased with the Wooten boiler did not work out as hoped & were later vacated".
Written on back: [red pencil] "Page 10 - pix 1 56% - 1 15/16 x 5" [pencil on white adhesive label] "locomotives".
Irregular emulsion; cracked in places throughout. Fingerprint smudges.Collection
Photograph Collection