Class 300 (Locobase 7144)

Data from the C&EI 6 - 1904 Locomotive Diagram book supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Locobase finds Atlantics everywhere during this period of American locomotive history. What puzzles the editor about this set was the retention from several other Schenectady designs of what was already a small firebox to heat a still larger boiler. As it turns out, this was just the first step. See Locobase 7145.

Class E-1 (Locobase 7153)

Data from the C&EI 11 - 1911 Locomotive Diagram book supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Locobase finds Atlantics everywhere during this period of American locomotive history. This pair arrived in the same year as the Schenectady Atlantics (Locobase 7144) showed up on the C & EI. Although smaller and less powerful and running on smaller drivers, the proportions and the look of these engines were more classically 4-4-2 than were the larger locomotives.

Angus Sinclair, writing in the September 1903 issue of his Railway and Locomotive Engineering Journal (p. 425) adds some comments on the distinguishing characteristics: "There are a number of Brooks' details to be seen on this engine, such as the reach rod, made of extra heavy 2-in. pipe; the Player ash pan, the spring hanger joints and the spring self-centering device on the carrying wheels at the rear. The equalizer between rear driver and carrying wheel has three pin holes, any one of which may be used, thus giving a chance for a slight redistribution of weight when engine is in the round house. The engine truck is supplied with the three-pivot link hanger for the cradle, which produces a rapid and sure return to center, though allowing considerable side movement."

Notice that the adhesion-weight augmenter could only be adjusted in the roundhouse.

A few years later they were incorporated into the C & EI.

Class E-2 (Locobase 7145)

Data from the C&EI 11 - 1911 Locomotive Diagram book supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Locobase guesses that Schenectady responded to the C & EI's call for Atlantics with a quick rework of an existing 4-6-0. That result is shown in Locobase 7144. But a liability of that design would have been the small firebox. So two years later, Schenectady delivered this sextet of 4-4-2s with larger fireboxes, fewer and larger-diameter tubes, and less overall heating surface. As Atlantics in general went, the C & EI engines had relatively larger boilers, middle-of-the-pack grate and firebox heating areas, and were likewise in the middle as far as adhesion weight went. They had 12" piston valves.

Baldwin then supplied 5 more to the same design in 1906 and another 5 in 1907.

According to the 1949 edition of the C & EI's diagram books, these were never superheated. Even so, some remained in service to that date.