https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/co ... 46171.html



More at the link, including photo.

I have always seen the YANKEE attributed to the CUYAHOGA STEAM FURNACE CO. What evidence is there for Alexander Chaplin and Co.?

Greetings:
Catalogs, drawings and the list of Chaplin customers with destinations for their locomotives.
J.David

JohnT,

I v'e always thought at too, is there some evidence we can see?

More discussion here:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3175&p=14223&hilit=CUYAHOGA+STEAM#p14223

Here is a photo of the Yankee and John Bull from 1914:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... up&seq=541


At that time it was believed that the Yankee was American made. The John Bull has typical Chaplin square boiler brace attachments but the Yankee dosn't. Both boilers look British. The Cuyahoga plate was reported on the Yankee in 1961 but was gone by 1982.
Chemical analyses of the metal might be the only way to tell where Yankee came from.

This 1910 article indicates that there were three vertical boiler locos at Jackson Iron:

https://books.google.com/books?id=mkhJA ... =PA770&dq=

The naming of the locomotives "Johnny Bull" and "Yankee" would seem to indicate that one was of British origin and the other American.

The Lake Superior Iron District: History of its Mines and Furnaces published 1869
In the last year at the Jackson mine: "There has also been added a small locomotive for taking cars in and out of the tunnel."

Yankee in 1947 https://digital.hagley.org/1986268_1_0678

I’m not so sure if that... I thought that the John Bull name originated here after the original was received and assembled.

Here is an article from 1913:

https://books.google.com/books?id=2qcfA ... ve&f=false

The character "John Bull" is a personification of England, in much the same way that "Uncle Sam" is for the United States. That's where the name of both the scrapped stablemate of the Yankee and the more famous Camden & Amboy locomotive in the Smithsonian collection came from. Presumably both were so named by their American owners or crews because of their British origins.

Both the 1913 and 1914 articals state clearly that "Johnny Bull" was named that by the local miners because it was made in Briton. They also state that Yankee was built in the US (Cleveland or Pittsburgh).

From the museum:

Although still not definitive, our recent research indicates the Yankee was Chaplin work no. 1106 which was the locomotive coming over ca. 1870.



We also have been in contact with Denmark’s railway museum “Danmarks Jernbanemuseum.” Their historian provided documents about their Gamle Ole, which is another surviving Chaplin. Although not a direct match, there is evidence supporting our Yankee Report produced in 1988 stating the Yankee is one of the 3 remaining locomotives of this type in the world.



We do have correspondence from Dr. Francis Lundin, a railroad enthusiast who passed away this past March. He claimed to have the builder’s plate – however, a builder’s plate is not definitive proof that it came from the Yankee even if its owner claims it did. Attempts to contact his relatives have been unsuccessful.



We have the Yankee Report available for you to research if you are in the Negaunee area. Feel free to stop and visit the museum and we can have it ready for you. FYI, we recently received a substantial grant to restore the Yankee. It will be conserved and restored to its original appearance within the next few years. Perhaps a metal analysis will be part of the project.