"Daniel Nason"

Daniel Nason is a 4-4-0 "American" type locomotive designed by Master Mechanic George S. Griggs and built by the railroad's shops. It is the only surviving "Dutch Wagon" locomotive, with its cylinders under the smokebox and inside the frames, a design that was popular before the Civil War. It has 16" x 20" cylinders and 54" drivers. Although it was a coal-burning engine, it was backdated to look like an older wood-burning one with a bonnet stack, small tender, and an older builder's plate for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. It was loaned to Purdue University from 1905 to 1938, was at the New York World's Fair in 1939 - 1940, then was sold to the Danbury Fair in Connecticut in 1951. When the fair closed down in 1982, the Friends of the Danbury Collection bought and donated it so it could rejoin the rest of the Purdue collection.

Missouri · United States