File:William Crooks at station.jpg

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Publicity photo of the William Crooks at Union Station, Washington, D.C. on 20 September 1927 en route to the Fair of the Iron Horse, held September 24 - October 8, 1927 in Halethorpe, MD.

The locomotive was built in 1861 by the New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company of Paterson, New Jersey, and was obsolete before the year 1900. The president of the Great Northern (US) Railway, James J. Hill, saved the William Crooks from the scrapyard by appointing it his own personal locomotive. Its last official duty was to help Hill celebrate his birthday in 1909, but the Great Northern frequently brought out the old locomotive thereafter for publicity and various railroad-related events. The last trip the locomotive made under its own power was to the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID npcc.18527.
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  • National Photo Company
  • Restoration by Adam Cuerden
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The restorationist, Adam Cuerden, requests attribution.

Public domain This work is from the National Photo Company collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.

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William Crooks

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current21:51, 26 July 2014Thumbnail for version as of 21:51, 26 July 20144,766 × 3,721 (8.44 MB)Adam CuerdenFinal fixes
21:38, 26 July 2014Thumbnail for version as of 21:38, 26 July 20144,766 × 3,721 (8.44 MB)Adam CuerdenFix right edge.
21:24, 26 July 2014Thumbnail for version as of 21:24, 26 July 20144,766 × 3,721 (8.43 MB)Adam Cuerden(uploaded using chunked upload script)
01:40, 11 July 2014Thumbnail for version as of 01:40, 11 July 20145,247 × 4,251 (9.07 MB)Renamed user 995577823Xyn{{Information |Description=Photo of the William Crooks at an undisclosed station. LOC doesn't identify the locomotive, but if you are familiar with the Crooks, it's easy to recognize this is a photo of it. |Source=[http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc...

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