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English: Original captions and text: "Fig: 18. Gillingham & Winans' "Crab" Locomotive" "Fig. 18 is copied from a photograph taken after the engine had been in service for many years." (Forney) "Fig. 8. A Crab" (Bell). This locomotive substantially conforms to the drawings in Winans' US Patent 308, granted in 1837.
To reduce artifacts from both printing and scanning, this image is a composite of 3 images, 2 from Forney, 1 from Bell.
Date before 1902
date QS:P,+1902-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1902-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source J. Snowden Bell, The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Sinclair, New York, 1912; Fig. 8, page 29. Matthias N. Forney, Reminiscences of Half a Century Proceedings of the New York Railroad Club, Vol. XII, No. 7 (May 15, 1902); Fig. 18, page 334.
Author anonymous (neither source cites an author).
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B&O Crab locomotive photo from Bell.png (scan from Bell, halftoned, higher resolution)

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