Bellpaire Boiler

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 According to my Dad's roster notes, 56-61 were class H 4-6-0's, built by Grant in 1883 (no more precise date given).  94 & 95 were class M/o-19 4-4-0's built by Baldwin in 1883 (no more precise date given).
Jim Nichols
    On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 07:39:53 PM CDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
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R.P.C. Sanderson claimed that he got tracings of the Bellpaireboiler 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 onWikipedia.) Thank you for any assistance you can offer.




Peter Getz




Rockwall, Texas



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