Note 1 — Front matter (continued 6)
Reading edition
Minutes of the Board of Managers of the Cumberland Valley Railroad. This book may be found in the office of the Secretary, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pa., June 25, 1851. Hereafter cited as “Minutes C.V.R.R.”
[2] Ibid.
[3] Minutes C.V.R.R.
[4] Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, Pa.), August 26, 1909.
[5] Railroad Advocate (December 29, 1855), vol. 2, p. 3.
[6] C. E. Fisher, “Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad,” Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (April 1938), no. 46, p. 48.
[7] Minutes C.V.R.R.
[8] Evening Sentinel (Carlisle, Pa.), October 23, 1901.
[9] Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Conn.), July 24, 1879. All data regarding A. F. Smith is from this source unless otherwise noted.
[10] Railway Age (September 13, 1889), vol. 14, no. 37. Page 600 notes that Tyler worked on C.V.R.R. 1851-1852; Smith’s obituary (footnote 9) mentions 1849 as the year; and minutes of C.V.R.R. mention Tyler as early as 1850.
[11] Minutes C.V.R.R.
[12] A. F. Holley, American and European Railway Practice (New York: 1861). An illustration of Smith’s superheater is shown on plate 58, figure 13.
[13] John H. White, “Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck,” (Paper 24, 1961, in Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Papers 19-30, U.S. National Museum Bulletin 228; Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), p. 117.
[14] Annual Report, C.V.R.R., 1853.
[15] Zerah Colburn, Recent Practice in Locomotive Engines (1860), p. 71.
[16] Railroad Gazette (September 27, 1907), vol. 43, no. 13, pp. 357-360. These notes on Wilmarth locomotives by C. H. Caruthers were printed with several errors concerning the locomotives of the Cumberland Valley Railroad and prompted the preparation of these present remarks on the history of Wilmarth’s activities. Note that on page 359 it is reported that only one compensating-lever engine was built for the C.V.R.R. in 1854, and not two such engines in 1852. The Pioneer is incorrectly identified as a “Shanghai,” and as being one of three such engines built in 1871 by Wilmarth.
[17] The author is indebted to Thomas Norrell for these and many of the other facts relating to Wilmarth’s Union Works.
[18] Railroad Gazette (October 1907), vol. 43, p. 382.
[19] Boston Daily Evening Telegraph (Boston, Mass.), August 11, 1854. The article stated that one engine a week was built and that 10 engines were already completed for the Erie. Construction had started on 30 others.
[20] The restoration work has been ably handled by John Stine of the Museum staff. Restoration started in October 1961.
[21] S. H. Oliver, The First Quarter Century of the Steam Locomotive in America (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 210; Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1956), pp. 38-46.