18 M O T I V E   P O W E R   D E V E L O P M E N T  
Three of the Many Different Designs of Locomotives Used
on the Pennsylvania Sixty Years Ago
 
Wheatland
American Type Passenger Locomotive, originally built for the Philadelphia & Columbia R. R. by the Lancaster Locomotive Works in 1853, and named "Wheatland."
Purchased by the Pennsylvania in 1857
Cylinders 16" x 20"
Drivers, diam.  66"
Weight on drivers 33,200 lb.
Weight, total engine 55,200 lb. 

     In 1860, this locomotive hauled H. R. H. the Prince of Wales from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. 
     It was rebuilt at Altoona in that year, and again altered, as shown in the illustration, in 1866.
 
Cylinders 10" x 18"
Drivers, diam.  56"
Total weight in working order, about 40,000 lb.

     This locomotive was followed by Nos. 217, built in 1861, and 251, built in 1863, which were of the same general design but with four wheeled leading trucks. No. 217 was for a time operated with an officials' car rigidly attached to it, but this car was subsequently detached and the locomotive transferred to the Philadelphia and Erie Division.
Four coupled light passenger locomotive - PRR 212
Four-coupled Tank Locomotive for Light passenger Service, 1861
Baldwin Locomotive No. 1000
 
ten wheeled freight locomotive - 1861
Ten-wheeled Freight Locomotive, built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1861
      This Locomotive was one of three, with cylinders 16½" x 22" and drivers 50" diameter, and weighing, according to the Railroad Company's records, 57,000 lb. with 49,000 lb. on drivers.
     Engines 231 and 232, built in 1862, and the first to be fitted with steel fireboxes, were of the same type as No. 224, but were somewhat heavier, with cylinders 18" in diameter.

 
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