Artwork Details
- Title
- American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender
- Artist
- Unidentified (American)
- Date
- ca. 1860s-1880s
- Location
- Dimensions
- 11 7⁄8 x 28 1⁄2 x 8 in. (30.2 x 72.4 x 20.3 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Mediums Description
- carved and painted wood with fabric and metal
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Architecture — vehicle — train
- Object Number
- 1986.65.335A-B
Artwork Description
Model trains made of lead or tin became popular after the transcontinental railroad line was finished in 1869. The triangular metal fixture on the front of this model locomotive is called a cowcatcher, which was used to push cows off the tracks when the train was unable to stop.