William Crooks at station straightened

Publicity photo of the William Crooks at Union Station, Washington, D.C. on 20 September 1927 while in transit to the Fair of the Iron Horse. 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 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. This is another photo of the locomotive 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

Date

1927

Photographer / author

restoration by Adam Cuerden; straightened by uploader

Collection

National Photo Company

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

4,766 × 3,721 pixels

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