Image: William Crooks at station

Description: Publicity photo of the William Crooks at Union Station, Washington, D.C. on 20 September 1927 en route to the Fair of the Iron Horse, held September 24 - October 8, 1927 in Halethorpe, MD. (The Library of Congress website doesn't identify the locomotive, but if you are familiar with the William Crooks, it's easy to recognize this is a photo of it.) The locomotive was built in 1861 by the New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company of Paterson, New Jersey. File:Minnesota Historical Society dismantling William Crooks.jpg This photo shows the dismantling of the locomotive for its relocation to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in 1975. It had stood in St. Paul's Union Depot since 1954. The locomotive has the marks of its builder, "N J L & M Co.-Paterson" which is seen in the photo. This photo of the locomotive has the same marks in the same place. File:Steam Chest Crooks.JPG Both trains have the same number plate and wrought iron holding the head lamp. File:Number Plate Crooks.JPG. The headlamps are identical and the detailing of the trains are the same. File:Headlamp Crooks.JPG File:Retirement of locomotive William Crooks 1954.jpg. There is another photo of the locomotive taken in 1939 as it made its way to the World's Fair in New York under its own power; the similarities can be seen. File:William Crooks 1939.JPG en:William Crooks (locomotive) was built in 1861, and was obsolete before the year 1900. The president of the Great Northern (US) Railway, James J. Hill, saved the William Crooks from the scrapyard by appointing it his own personal locomotive. Its last official duty was to help Hill celebrate his birthday in 1909, but the Great Northern frequently brought out the old locomotive thereafter for publicity and various railroad-related events. The last trip the locomotive made under its own power was to the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948.
Title: William Crooks at station
Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID npcc.18527. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Author: National Photo Company Restoration by Adam Cuerden
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License: Public domain
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