Installation of Steam Locomotive in NMHT
ID: MAH-49366
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1961
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 6, Folder: 6
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While the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building. Using a pulley system, the locomotive is part way into the building. There are several people standing in the foreground, background and right side of the photograph. The locomotive was built in 1926 by the Richmond, Virginia, works of the American Locomotive Company.
Subject
- American Locomotive Company
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- Railroad Hall (NMHT)
- Pacific Railroad Company
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
For other images of the Pacific Railroad car arriving at NMHT see Negatives SA1289 or 2004-10283, MAH-49366, and SA-911. For similar images of the Southern Railroad car arriving at NMHT see Negatives SIA2009-2174 and SA-912. Also, in this folder is a list of hand written captions to the pictures.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 6, Folder: 6
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1961
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Railroads
- Trains
- Museum buildings
- Construction
- Moving of artifacts
- Workmen
- Transportation
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Steam locomotives
- Employees
- Construction workers
- Railroads--Trains
- Locomotives
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Object
- Event
ID Number
MAH-49366
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Object; Medium: Photographic print