Bellpaire Boiler

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Mr. Getz,

I neglected to address the Class H engines in my earlier email; according
the the locomotive roster in Prince's book, N&W received  six (6) 4-6-0
locomotives, Nos. 56-61, and Nos. 98-106, from Grant in 1893.

The materials in the NWHS archives include a photo of one of these
locomotive:

Class H https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/listdocs/select.php?index=rs&id=177

Jim Brewer
Glenwood MD

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:39 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> R.P.C. Sanderson claimed that he got tracings of the Bellpaire boiler from
> a former classmate of his in Cassel, Germany, where he had attended
> engineering school. And it is those tracings that the N&W provided to
> Baldwin Locomotive Works and Grant Locomotive Works when they placed orders
> with both of those manufacturers.  I believe in 1883, N & W placed (or
> received) an order with Grant Locomotive Works of New Jersey (late of
> Chicago, Illinois) for five or six [H Class?], 2-8-0 that were numbered
> 56-60 (61) and an order with Baldwin for [Class M(1st)?] 4-4-0 that were
> numbered 95 & 96 (or perhaps 94 & 95). The significance of these two orders
> is the fact that those locomotives could be the first locomotives in the
> U.S. with the Bellpaire boiler. About this same time the PRR started using
> the Bellpaire also. I am trying to nail down a date for the delivery of
> these locomotives to the Norfolk & Western so I can compare that to PRR
> records to determine which road actually used the Bellpaire first.
>
>
> Can you point me toward a resource? (I have seen the list of locomotives
> on Wikipedia.) Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
>
>
> Peter Getz
>
>
> Rockwall, Texas
>
>
>
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