William Hedley's steam locomotive "Puffing Billy" of 1813, with
vertical cylinders and a rather complicated mechanism, was one
of the first really successful steam locomotives of the world,
during 48 years it hauled coal wagons from a coal mine to a
nearby river port with a speed of 8 km/h. The original is in
the Science Museum in London (the oldest preserved steam
locomotive of the world), this is a replica built 1906 by the
K.Bay.Sts.B. works in München. Both the firebox and
smokestack are on the rear end of the boiler, where the fireman
was working; the driver stood on the front end of the boiler.
<br>Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum M&uuml;nchen, 2003-11-25
<p><a href="mailto:tbk@uncia.de">tobias benjamin k&ouml;hler</a>