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Mogul Type Freight Locomotive, as Rebuilt at Altoona Shops in 1865
Mogul Type Freight Locomotive, as Rebuilt at Altoona Shops in 1865
Cylinders
18" x 24"
Drivers, diam.
48"
Weight on drivers, about
56,000 lb.
Weight, total engine, about
66,000 lb.

     This locomotive was originally built in 1853 or 1854, by Smith & Perkins, and was rebuilt at Altoona with new cylinders, frames and running gear.  The two safety valves were mounted above the sand-box on separate branch-pipes, or "buckhorns," with the whistle between them.  This locomotive was completely destroyed by fire in the Pittsburgh riots of 1877. 

  
death on July 18, 1887.  Mr. Samuel M. Vauclain served as an apprentice, machinist and foreman in the same shops until 1883, when he engered the service of The Baldwin Locomotive Works. 
     Baldwin locomotive number 1,000, illustrated on page 18, was completed on February 28, 1861.  It was built for the Pennsylvania and bore the road number 212 and the name "M.W. Baldwin," and was a light passenger locomotive of the 2-4-0 type, with 10x18-inch cylinders and driving wheels 56 inches in diameter.  Two other locomotives of similar design, but having four-wheeled leading trucks, were subsequently built. 
     On June 15, 1862, John P. Laird was appointed Master of Machinery, which position he hed until May, 1866.  Mr. Laird was an engineer of great ability, and he exerted a marked influence on the design and development on Pennsylvania motive power.  Counspicuous among his devices were a baloon shaped stack, which proved a great success as a spark arrester on coal burning locomotives, and a design of two-bar guide which has survived to the present day and is frequently used on heavy power.  Mr. Laird was also active in rebuilding and modernizing many of the older locomotives, and in
  endeavoring, where possible, to standardize the many types and designs found on the road, the number of which had been materially increased when the Pennsylvania acquired the equipment of the State Transportation System in 1857. 
     The typical passenger locomotive of this period was of the "American" (4-4-0) type, with spread truck wheels, horizontal cylinders, plain side valves and Stephenson link motion, and a wagon-top boiler having a deep firebox between the driving axles.  The freight locomotive of the ten-wheeled (4-6-0) type was in many respects similar, except that a third pair of wheels was interposed between the truck and the leading drivers of the passenger locomotive.  The larest passenger locomotives had 17 x 24-inch cylinders and driving wheels from 60 to 66 inches in diameter, while the heavy ten wheelers, for freight service, had 18 x 22-inch cylinders and 54-inch driving wheels.  Invectors were being subtituted for pumps to a limited extent, and the need of a brake more efficient than the ordinary hand-brake, especially in passenger service, was becoming realized.  The Loughridge Chain Brake was used to a considerable extent on the Pennsylvania, and was one of the most effective 
  
     This locomotive represented a design introduced on the Philadelphia & Reading R.R. by James Millholland, and was purchased by the Pennsylvania for experimental purposes.  It had 19 x 24-inch cylinders, and 48-inch drivers, and weighed 70,000 pounds with 50,000 on drivers.  These locomotives were popularly known as "Gun boats." 
Ten-wheeled Freight Locomotive, Norris Works, 1866
Ten-wheeled Freight Locomotive, built by the Norris Works at Lancaster, in 1866
 


 
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