4/11/21

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog.  Today's image is of the same locomotive as last week at the B&O Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.  Obviously this is a front view of this beautiful old locomotive.  You can see the ceiling pretty well which I haven't mentioned much but the roundhouse is just gorgeous.  The wood ceiling and the floor are beautiful as is the turntable which can be operated by just one person it is so well balanced.  Part of the ceiling had collapsed in 2003 but fortunately this very old locomotive was not in it's normal place at the time so was not damaged.  This is the William Mason and was built in 1856.

4/4/21

 It's a double digit day!  😁  It is also Steamy Sunday here on the Blog.  Today we return to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore Maryland.  Today's locomotive is the William Mason, a beautiful 4-4-0 American type built in 1856 and named after it's and 753 others builder.  It's number is 25 and it was used extensively during the Civil War to carry troops and supplies for the Union.  It is the first locomotive for the B&O to have a Stephenson link motion valve gear and a round smoke box set on a cylinder saddle.  It was not in the roundhouse during the roof collapse of 2003.  It was last under steam in 2012 and was restored back to it's original look in 2017. It is now stored in the roundhouse.  It was sitting in the Roundhouse in 2005 when I got this photo.