Pennsylvania 0-8-0 "Switcher" Locomotives in the USA

Class 44 (Locobase 15778)

Data from David Kinnear Clark and Zerah Colburn, Recent Practice in the Locomotive Engine (Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1859), p. 82. Works numbers were 787-789 in October 1857 and 793-794 in November.

Flexible-beam eight-coupled engines from Baldwin enjoyed some success beginning in the mid-1840s (see Locobase 1022 for a description of this setup). Colburn pointed out two advantages to the layout. The "hind truck" was under the firebox and, "while the wheelbase is thus limited, an equal distribution of weight is obtained." Total heating surface area probably came to about 775 sq ft (72 sq m).

The second of the five was sent to the North Pennsylvania with the name Carbon. It was scrapped in 1873. The 44 was scrapped in January 1876. Both of the later engines gained some tractive effort when they rebuilt in the mid-1860s with cylinders of a longer stroke of 22" (559 mm) and 48" (1,219 mm) drivers. Both were sold in 1870 and 1869, respectively, to the Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain.

Class Quaker City (Locobase 2606)

See

[] (visited 6 Jan 2005), which is a reprint of a collection of articles by Paul Warner originally published in Baldwin Magazine in 1924. Works numbers were 573-576. Boiler pressure is an estimate.

This class was made up of Baldwin's flexible-beam truck locomotives Quaker City (94), Iron City (95), Pennsylvania (97), and Bedford (98). Ex-Quaker City was rebuilt as a 2-6-0 in November 1865 and scrapped in August 1879. 97-98 were both rebuilt as 2-8-0T tank engine in 1864 and scrapped in 1869.