Rocket
Aug 10, 2018 18:33:50 #
The locomotive credited with starting it all...
Aug 10, 2018 18:45:03 #
htbrown wrote:
The locomotive credited with starting it all...
That is one fantastic old engine. Thanks for sharing this image.
Aug 10, 2018 19:10:02 #
gray_ghost2
Loc: Antelope, (Sac) Ca.
Great to know what the 1st steam locomotive looked like. Appears that they have taken good care of it. Where is it located?
Aug 10, 2018 19:10:08 #
Aug 10, 2018 20:12:56 #
Aug 10, 2018 21:07:53 #
gray_ghost2 wrote:
Great to know what the 1st steam locomotive looked like. Appears that they have taken good care of it. Where is it located?
If I am not mistaken, it's at the National Railway Museum, York, UK.
Aug 10, 2018 22:02:20 #
rjaywallace wrote:
That is one fantastic old engine. Thanks for sharing this image.
It is, as someone else suggested, in the York museum. It's in awfully good shape for an 1829 engine. I suspect it's either a reproduction or has had so much restoration it may as well be. It's still terminally cool.
Aug 10, 2018 23:54:39 #
Great shots! These beautiful color shots show it in it's splendid glory as built, while the historical images tend to be BW. Artistic license is definitely allowed but the color images are more historically accurate. Which is ironic.
It is a replica if the shots were taken in New York:
"In 1862 Rocket was donated to the Patent Office Museum in London (now the Science Museum[1]) by the Thompsons of Milton Hall, near Brampton.[21] It was meant to take part in the Great British Empire Exhibition of 1851 at Crystal Palace but this never happened because the preparation of the locomotive for the event took too long.
The locomotive still exists. It was displayed at the Science Museum for 150 years, although in a form much modified from its state at the Rainhill Trials. In 2018 it was displayed in Newcastle and following this there were plans to display it in Manchester for seven months, then at the National Railway Museum, York from an unknown date in 2019."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson%27s_Rocket#Preservation
It is a replica if the shots were taken in New York:
"In 1862 Rocket was donated to the Patent Office Museum in London (now the Science Museum[1]) by the Thompsons of Milton Hall, near Brampton.[21] It was meant to take part in the Great British Empire Exhibition of 1851 at Crystal Palace but this never happened because the preparation of the locomotive for the event took too long.
The locomotive still exists. It was displayed at the Science Museum for 150 years, although in a form much modified from its state at the Rainhill Trials. In 2018 it was displayed in Newcastle and following this there were plans to display it in Manchester for seven months, then at the National Railway Museum, York from an unknown date in 2019."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson%27s_Rocket#Preservation
Aug 11, 2018 02:11:09 #
Aug 11, 2018 08:24:57 #
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