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Steamtown National Historic SiteThe tender of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 26, a small steam locomotive built in 1926, rides on old arch-bar trucks. NPS Photo, Ken Ganz
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Steamtown National Historic Site
Replacing a Tire on a Steam Locomotive

This virtual tour shows How a Steam Locomotive Tire is Changed (click to view MS Powerpoint (1,553k) or Adobe Acrobat (838k)).
Drawing of mechanical engineer Elijay McCoy, creator of the 'real McCoy' automatic lubricator.  

Did You Know?
Elijah J. McCoy, a brilliant African-American mechanical engineer, invented an automatic lubricator cup (or drip cup) for steam locomotives and other machines. It worked so well that inspectors, when checking in a new piece of machinery, would ask, "Is it the real McCoy?"
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