The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964
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Title: The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851
United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum
of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964
Author: John H. White
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
BULLETIN 240
SMITHSONIAN PRESS
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
Contributions
From the
Museum
of History and
Technology
Papers 34-44
On Science and Technology
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966
Publications of the United States National Museum
The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin.
In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museums—The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology—setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations, and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects.
The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume.
In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, and since 1959, in Bulletins titled Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology,
have been gathered shorter papers relating to the collections and research of that Museum.
The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34-44, comprises Bulletin 240. Each of these papers has been previously published in separate form. The year of publication is shown on the last page of each paper.
Frank A. Taylor
Director, United States National Museum
Contributions from
The Museum of History and Technology:
Paper 42
The Pioneer
: Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851
In the Museum of History and Technology
John H. White
THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD 244
SERVICE HISTORY OF THE PIONEER
249
MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PIONEER
251
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
Figure 1.—The Pioneer,
built in 1851, shown here as renovated and exhibited in the Museum of History and Technology, 1964. In 1960 the locomotive was given to the Smithsonian Institution by the Pennsylvania Railroad through John S. Fair, Jr. (Smithsonian photo 63344B.)
John H. White
The PIONEER
:
LIGHT PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE
of 1851
In the Museum of History and Technology
In the