KENT MANY TRAINS PRESENTS, IN ANOTHER
ARTHUR D. DUBIN FAMOUS-TRAIN SPECTACULAR,
THE 20TH CENTURY LIMITED... AUGUST TRAINS

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THE GENERAL

Engine No.3 is recalled to active duty

DAVID P. MORGAN

1 IN the year 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass and Longfellow wrote Song of Hiawatha, Kansas asked into the Union and Cyrus Field laid a telegraph cable from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. There were approximately 27 million people in the country. And in Paterson, N. J., five builders (Danforth, Cooke; New Jersey Locomotive & Machine; Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor; Swinburne, Smith; and William Swinburne) constructed 148 locomotives. Four of the engines built by Rogers that year, and subsequently hauled a mile through the streets on a mule-drawn wagon because the foundry had no siding, were sent to the 5-foot-gauge and state-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad in Georgia. The last of the lot to go south was the General, which was billed out at $8850, less freight and insurance. She was shipped in December.

The engine was moved by rail 18 miles to Jersey City, sailed 1000 miles down the Atlantic coast to Savannah, Ga., reloaded onto a steamboat there and steamed 120 miles up the Savannah River to Augusta, Ga., and finally placed on the rails of the Georgia Railroad for the last lap of 171 miles to Atlanta.

Barring wreck or boiler explosion, a locomotive built in 1855 had a life expectancy of approximately 20 years, although such actuary tables did not take into account the civil strife that was to beset the railroads of the South during 1861-1865. The General was a typical ante-bellum locomotive: American in design and wheel arrangement, fancy in decoration, primitive in technology. Her three-point suspension, 4-4-0 layout, was