In 1892, four surviving similar Grasshopper engines were reconditioned for display. Despite this success, the Atlantic prototype engine was scrapped in 1835 after the death of Phineas Davis. Satisfied with this locomotive's operations, the B&O built 20 more locomotives of a similar design at its Mt. Nicknamed the ' Grasshopper' for its distinctive horizontal beam and long connecting rods, the locomotive carried 50 psi (345 kPa 3.45 bar) of steam and burned one short ton (0.91 t 0.89 long tons) of anthracite coal on a 40-mile (64 km) trip from Baltimore. Ox teams were used to convey the engine to Baltimore, where it made a successful inaugural trip to Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, a distance of thirteen miles (21 km). The locomotives he delivered before his death in 1835 were the first commercially feasible, sufficiently efficient coal burning steam locomotives produced domestically in the United States and placed into traction service. A few of these were incorporated in the Atlantic by Davis, whether by specification or because Davis wanted them is unclear. It was commissioned after Davis' entry had won the competition for a steam locomotive design, but the contract was awarded to the inventor of the Tom Thumb when the five locomotives commissioned failed the contracted delivery, B&O bought out the patents. It is in fact the first commercially successful and practical American built locomotive and class prototype, and Davis' second constructed for the B&O, his first having won a design competition contest announced by the B&O in 1830.īuilt at a cost of $4,500 (equal to $122,145 today), the Atlantic weighed 6.5 short tons (5.9 t 5.8 long tons) and had two vertical cylinders. Original locomotive scrapped, similar locomotive made into replicaĪtlantic was the name of a very early American steam locomotive built by inventor and foundry owner Phineas Davis for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1832. The former Andrew Jackson, rebuilt to resemble the Atlantic, preserved on static display at the B&O Railroad Museum.Ĥ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge

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