Lowry Sexton

From Jeff Sexton's webpage:


 * In 1932 Popular Mechanics Magazine held a contest. Contestants were to construct a scale model of the DeWitt Clinton steam engine, its tender and three passenger coaches. The scale of the model was to be one half inch to one foot. The engine would fit in the palm of a hand. The prize was $1000 and a week in New York City via New York Central Railroad's Twentieth Century Limited.


 * Lowry Sexton, my great grandfather, began to construct his model that year, 1932. However, he did not proceed according the Popular Mechanics multi-part article. Instead, Lowry obtained construction blue prints of the actual DeWitt Clinton engine and proceeded to create, to scale, an exact working duplicate, perfect in every detail.