Vauclain compound [SEP] discoverer or inventor
mentioned earlier, thus requiring the low-pressure cylinders to be on top.
History.
The Vauclain compound was introduced in 1889 through by its namesake and the then general superintendent of Baldwin and eventually president of the company, Samuel M. Vauclain. Soon most Baldwin customers were operating some examples; a brochure from 1900 lists sales to 140 customers, including large fleets to such Class I railroads as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, the Erie Railroad, the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
Makielski was also commissioned to create portraits of Samuel Vauclain (1856-1940, engineer and inventor of the Vauclain compound locomotive and president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works) and Leopold Stokowski (1885-1947, British-born American conductor) in Philadelphia.
Works and recognition.
He was a nationally recognized and acclaimed artist, receiving honors from the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the St. Louis Museum of Art.
The more significant of Makielski's portraits are listed in the Catalog of