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The 4-2-0 "General Sherman"

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The First Locomotive of the First Railroad in Texas. The 4-2-0 named the "General Sherman" (for Texas General Sidney Sherman) was the first locomotive Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, with a video.

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The First Locomotive

of the First Railroad in Texas

The 4-2-0 named the "General Sherman"
(for Texas General Sidney Sherman)
was the first locomotive of the
Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway

This locomotive is blogged on RailBricks! Thanks Tony!

More information below these photos and video

The only surviving "4-2-0" (How I know that.)
The C&NW's 4-2-0 Pioneer

I know of no photographs of the
"General Sherman" locomotive but these two sketches exist.

They are how I knew where to put the name and number.

And a video!

For more info on:
The BBB&C the First Railroad in Texas

Texas's General Sidney Sherman

The General Sherman Train

and "In 1852 the embryonic Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway bought a second-hand 4-2-0 engine."

How I know it was a Baldwin locomotive 4-2-0 "Bought 10/12/1852 in Boston from either the Bo&P or Bo&W; could be serial number 25, 30, 34, 39, 71, 155, 166, or 168"

The Home of Republic of Texas Navy in LEGOs is right here on MOCpages.

enjoy

kurt

Notes:

RTS - Republic of Texas Ship
RTN - Republic of Texas Navy
LNA - Lego Naval Architect

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Chris Paulos

April 7, 2013

I'm doing a presentation in a few weeks on the early Texas railroads (BBB&C included, of course) for a series the museum I volunteer at is putting on. May I use your photo of the Sidney Sherman build? As far as I know there isn't an original photograph of it out there and your picture could be the best representation of any kind.

I like it

B. W.

January 11, 2010

That's OK. If nothing else, I'll figure it out on my own, but I have no idea on how to design.

I made it

RTN LNA

January 10, 2010

Quoting B. W. Could you send me instructions on how to make this model, please?

Although I started this design in LDRAW/MLCAD (as I usually do) I went through MANY changes in trying to realize it, it would take a large amount of effort to produce workable plans, and I have a number of other things I am spending my LEGO time, on currently. kurt