Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1917 — TO EXHIBIT OLD LOCOMOTIVE [ARTICLE]

TO EXHIBIT OLD LOCOMOTIVE

Mississippi, One of First Engines Used In United States, Was in Serva . Ice 54 Years. . The locomotive Mississippi, built in England in 1834 and operated on the Illinois Central railroad 54 years, has arrived in Chicago. The little engine, which is hardly 12 feet long, was one of the first used in the United States. It was bought for Service on the old Natchez and Hamburg road in 1893. Later it was turned over to the Baltimore and Ohio and became part of that company’s exhibit in the St. Louis fair in 1904. President Markham of the Illinois Central heard of the historic engine and it was found in the Baltimore and Ohio yards at ‘ Martinsburg, W. Va. Space in the Twelfth street station probably will be fenced off and the locomotive will be hlaced there as a permanent •xliiblt.