Forney Locomotive Patent

daylight4449 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:25 am

I figured I'd go here second, as a google search hasn't revealed much of Matthias Forney's patent for his pattern of locomotive (i.e. a Forney). Has anyone ever dug up the patent before? I've seen two seperate citations for when it was originally given to him. The first is a range of 1861-1864 when he worked for the Illinois Central, and the second is 1866 which comes from A History of the American Locomotive: Its Development, 1830-1880. I would guess that begs the further question as to when the patent was actually granted and/or filed for. Some help from the experts among us would be greatly appreciated, as I'm quite curious as to what's actually in the patent.

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

Patent #52,406 issued February 6, 1866

Ron Goldfeder · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:09 pm

The patent number is 52406, dated February 6, 1866.

patentable · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:33 pm

link to the patent - on google patents
https://patents.google.com/patent/US52406A/en?oq=+52406

bob

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:46 pm

Anybody think it is funny, that the whole point of the Forney patent was to run cab forward, and basically nobody ever did that?

Dave · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:50 pm

Immaterial. It's expired, so go ahead and build a few. I'd go in 2',3' and standard gauges.