. Book of the Royal blue . were stoutlybuilt engines, too, with good materialin every part of them, and some of them,put into service thirty years ago. arestill pegging away, much too good to berelegated to the scrap heap. The Baltimore & Ohio was openedfrom Cumberland to Wheeling in Janu-ary. 1853, and in preparation for thisevent and its expected large accessionof the traffic, seventeen engines wereordered early in 1850, at a cost of about$150,000. Ross Winans secured theorder for ten of these engines, at a costof $9,750 apiece, eight more were builtby A. W. Denmead, at $8,500 each, andtwo f
. Book of the Royal blue . were stoutlybuilt engines, too, with good materialin every part of them, and some of them,put into service thirty years ago. arestill pegging away, much too good to berelegated to the scrap heap. The Baltimore & Ohio was openedfrom Cumberland to Wheeling in Janu-ary. 1853, and in preparation for thisevent and its expected large accessionof the traffic, seventeen engines wereordered early in 1850, at a cost of about$150,000. Ross Winans secured theorder for ten of these engines, at a costof $9,750 apiece, eight more were builtby A. W. Denmead, at $8,500 each, andtwo from Smith & Perkins at $9,500,two from the New Castle ManufacturingCo., at $9,500, and one from the samecompany at $8,500, while four weremade at the B. & O. shops and chargedup at $9,500 each. This little list showsthat the price of all classes of engines. i6 THE EVOLUTION OF THE LOCOMOTIVE. was between $8,500 and $9,750, and itis a curious fact that the increasingcheapness of material and greater effi-ciency of workmanship permits enginesof double the weight, and more thanthe power, to be built to-day for aboutthe same prices. Before these orderswere given out the B. & 0. was usingsixty-four engines on the main stem. The next innovation in engine build-ing, which, in view of modern Americanpractice would not be termed an improve-ment, was made by Samuel J. Hayes in1857. Mr. Hayes was then Master ofMachinery for the B. & O., and hedetermined to build some wood-burningengines with inside cylinders. As insidecylinders demand forged cranks on thedriving axles, and as these crank axlesare liable to fracture with excessive branch road. But the latest example ofengine building, as illustrated by theten-wheeled consolidated passenger en-gines at present in use on the B. & , brings up such magnificent con-centration of speed,
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