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The small locomotive here much more closely resembles the "Celestial Empire" locomotive Ransomes and Rapier sold to Jardine Matheson for the Wusong Railroad than its portrayal in Dianshizhai.
1media/Small Train_thumb.png2020-09-14T09:02:46-04:00Nathaniel Isaacson9a313a8f88ba8c43c463465ac9070fc9a3b50539Small Train - Gezhi Huibian2Image of a Small Train from Gezhi Huibianmedia/Small Train.pngplain2021-07-26T19:16:59-04:00Shanghai1890John Fryer (ed.) Gezhi Huibian "開辦鐵路工程說略." V. 5, p. 10-17, 1890.Public domain.Nathaniel IsaaconNI-0037Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f