File:Norris 4-2-0 locomotive William Penn - Caruthers 1906 (grayscale, contrast stretch).jpg

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English: Side view drawing of the Norris 4-2-0 locomotive William Penn with tender; this locomotive was built in 1835 for the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. (The source says that the locomotive is shown as it appeared in 1846; in particular, the tender seems to date to that time.)
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C. H. Caruthers, "The First Railroad Owned and Operated by a Government", p. 167, in Railroad Gazette, vol. XLI, no. 8, August 24, 1906.

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