19th Century motive power

[Royce Wilson]

That really is a fine book and well worth the price as a lot of research went into this.
The Mason locomotives really were state of art of their day.

Royce

[on30gn15]

There are useful images here.

Examples
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr13s.jpg
(is that a Big roundhouse behind it?)
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr1sb.jpg
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/pr_us.jpg
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/pr1832.jpg
www.rr-fallenflags.org/rdg/rdg-s411ark.jpg
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns562.jpeg

You won't believe the cab on this 1859 4-4-0 on Philadelphia and Reading
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/pr_hiawatha.jpg

Mason Bogie at Mason Works
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/erie_mmw.jpg

Attractive little 0-6-0
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bgr1.jpg
1873 0-6-0 with slope back tender and cab with side doors
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr949s.jpg

1873 PRR 2-8-0 Consolidation
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr950s.jpg

N&W via Huge library of images at Virgina Tech.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns576.jpeg
(gaslamp, eagle on sand dome lid, and stack of wheels are noteworthy)
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns565.jpeg
(love the combine and coach in that one)
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns595.jpeg
(roundhouse roof and brick shop buildings behind it?)
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns716.jpeg
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns562.jpeg
(note house style and picket fence)

Whole page of CNJ steamers from Taunton, Brooks, Cooke, New Jersey, Mason, Grant, Rogers, Baldwin, and whoever A. Pardee in Hazelton, Maryland was.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/cnj_steam3.html

Dig the 6 wheel tender on this 0-6-0
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/cnj402s.jpg
Background buildings to note
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/cnj66s.jpg

An 0-4-0 you don't see one like every day
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/pr1s.jpg

1890 0-6-0 Saddle Tank
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/pr813s.jpg

Anyway, you get the idea that site overflows with good stuff.