24 M O T I V E   P O W E R   D E V E L O P M E N T  


 
American Type Locomotive, rebuilt at Altoona, 1866
American Type Passenger Locomotive, as Rebuilt at Altoona Shops, 1866
     This locomotive was originally built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1852, and was similar to the "Wyoming," illustrated on page 13. It was named "Butler." As here shown it was rebuilt to burn coal, and equipped with a Laird stack and link motion.
 
devices of its class. It was arranged with a friction wheel, which could be pulled up against the right-hand rear driving wheel of the locomotive. As the friction wheel rotated a chain was wound up on its shaft, and the pull of this chain was transmitted to the brake-shoes throughout the train. 
     This period witnessed an increasing use of steel in locomotive construction, and the Pennsylvania was active in trying out this material. Steel fireboxes were first built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Pennsylvania in 1861. English steel of a high temper was used, and the plates cracked in fitting them to the boilers; and it was necessary to take them out and substitute copper. American homogeneous cast steel, however, was successfully used for the fireboxes of engines 231 and 232, built in January, 1862. These were ten-wheeled freight locomotives with combustion chambers 36 inches deep, and the inside fireboxes and combustion chambers with the exception of the tube sheets (which were copper), were built of steel plates throughout. Steel boiler shells were first built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Pennsylvania in 1868, and
  steel tubes were first used by the Works in three ten-wheelers built for this road in the same year. 
     The first application of the four-wheeled swing-bolster truck made by The Baldwin Locomotive Works occurred in 1867, when this device was applied to a group of American (4-4-0) type locomotives built for the Pennsylvania. Among these were four fast passenger locomotives, with 17 x 24-inch cylinders and driving wheels 66 inches in diameter, which bore the road numbers 419422. Engine 422 was placed on the road September 9, 1867, and was in constant service until May 14, 1871, without being off its wheels for repairs, during which time it made 153,280 miles. This locomotive is shown in an accompanying illustration. 
     The Pennsylvania locomotives built during the late sixties were notable because of the simplicity of their outline and the absence of superfluous paint and brass work. The lavish use of polished brass and vivid colors was one of the most conspicuous features of the typical American locomotive built during this period; and the Pennsylvania, in dispensing with much of this decoration
 
Cylinders 
15" x 18"
 Drivers, diam.
44"
Weight, total engine
 65,400 lb.

     There  were 14 locomotives of this class. The majority were retired between 1885 and 1889, while two remained in service until 1892. 

 
Six-wheeled locomotive, Baldwin, 1867
Six-wheeled Switching Locomotive, built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1867
 


 
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