. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. l&titi&M J « I 0 'J t** â ⢠Figure 8. Ini earliest known illustration of thi / drawn by A. S. Hull, masta mechanic of the Cumberland Valley Railroad in 187b. li depicts the engine as it appeared in 1871. {Courtesy oj Paul Wt >/.; The Pioneer and jenny hind achieved such success in .n linn iln- president oi the road, Frederick Watts. 11 urn 1 ic-nted on 1 heir performance in the annual report of the Cumberland Valley Railroad for 1851. stated that since their passenger trains were rarely more than .1 baggage car and
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. l&titi&M J « I 0 'J t** â ⢠Figure 8. Ini earliest known illustration of thi / drawn by A. S. Hull, masta mechanic of the Cumberland Valley Railroad in 187b. li depicts the engine as it appeared in 1871. {Courtesy oj Paul Wt >/.; The Pioneer and jenny hind achieved such success in .n linn iln- president oi the road, Frederick Watts. 11 urn 1 ic-nted on 1 heir performance in the annual report of the Cumberland Valley Railroad for 1851. stated that since their passenger trains were rarely more than .1 baggage car and two coaches, the light locomotives ". . have been found to be admirably adapted u> our business.'' The Cumberland Valley Railroad, therefore, added two more locomotives oi similar design in the nest few years. These engines were the Boston and the Enterprise, also built by Wilmarth in 1854-1855. Waits reported the Pioneei and Jenny hind cost J7,642. A standard 8-v\ heel engine cost about $6,500 to 58,000 each during this period. In recent years, the Pennsylvania Railroad has stated the Pioneei cost |6 !00 in gold, l nit is una I ile to give the source for tins information. The author can discount this statement for it does not seem reasonable that a linht. cheap engine of the pattern of the Pioi 1 could cost as much as a machine nearly twice its si/e. »Evening Sentinel 1 arlisle, Pa Octobei 23, 1901. PAPER 42: THE "PIONEER" OI ISM Service History ol the Pioneer Alter being put in service. thePioneei continued to perform well and was credited as able to n car passenger train along smartly at Ml This tranquility was shattered in 1 tctober 1862 by a raiding party led by Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart which CUMBERLAND^ 'RAIL ROAD. NOT TRANSFERABLE. until December 31si. 1863. unless otherwise ordered. Figure 9. Aw \i pass ol the Cumberland Valley Railroad issm-d in 1863. 24'). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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