Notable Classes and Locomotives
- Tom Thumb was the first steam locomotive used in the United States
- 2400 Old Maude (Class O) was the first Mallet in the United States
- 5600 George H. Emerson (Class N-1) was the first duplex locomotive
- Class Q-3 was the USRA Light Mikado including the very first built (#4500)
- Class P-7 was the "president" series of pacifics (4-6-2)
- Class C-16 was the "Little Joe" or "Dockside" switchers
- Class LE-1 locomotives were the first mainline electric locomotives
- The class EM-1 simple articulated locomotives were the largest locomotives run on the B&O
- William Mason is currently the oldest operating example of the 4-4-0 type locomotive in the United States.
Read more about this topic: Baltimore And Ohio Railroad Locomotives
Famous quotes containing the words notable, classes and/or locomotives:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)