| Locomotive Material Requirements | |
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A locomotive, built in 1854, contained the following: |
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| Material | Quantity (pounds) |
| Cast Iron (cylinders, drivers, wheels, fittings) |
24,500 |
| Plate & Sheet Iron (boiler, firebox) | 9,200 |
| Roller Bar Iron (various fittings) | 12,000 |
| Hammered Iron (frame, rods, pins) | 7,500 |
| Steel (springs, slides) | 1,400 |
| Copper (in firebox, tubes, tube sheets) | 1,400 |
| Tin, Zinc, Brass | 500 |
| Wood (cab, buffer beams, cow catcher, boiler lagging) | Unknown |
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TOTAL |
45,700+ |
| From John Hogan, Thoughts about the City of St. Louis and Her Commerce and Manufactures and Railroads &c. (St. Louis, 1854), p. 18 as quoted in John Lozier, Taunton and Mason: Cotton Machinery and Locomotive Manufacture in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1811-1861, p. 458-9, Dissertation for a PhD at Ohio State University, 1978. | |