Figure 3. — "Pimm i r. 



901, showing the sandbox and large headlamp. Note the lamp on the cab roof, now 

 used as the headlight. (Smithsonian photo 49272.) 



main shops of the Cumberland Valley road at 

 Chambersburg. 



While there seems little question that these locomo- 

 tives were not built as a direct order for the Cumber- 

 land Valley Railroad, an article s appearing in the 

 Railroad Advocate in 1855 credits their design to Smith. 

 The article speaks of a 2-2-4 built for the Macon and 

 Western Railroad and says in part: 



1 his engine is designed and built very generally upon 

 the ideas, embodied in some small tank engines designed 

 by A. I'. Smith, Esq., for the Cumberland Valley road. 

 Mr. Smith is a strong advocate of light engines, and his 

 novel st\lc and proportions of engines, as built for him 

 a few years since, by Seth Wilmarth, at Boston, arc known 

 to some of our readers. Without knowing all the cir- 



s Railroad \dvocat, I >© ember 29, 1855), vol. 2, p. 3. 



cumstanccs under which these engines are worked on the 

 Cumberland Valley road, we should not venture to repeat 

 .ill that we have heard of their performances, it is enough 

 to say that they are said to do more, in proportion to 

 their weight, than any other engines now in use. 



The author believes that the Railroad Advocate's claim 

 of Smith's design of the Pioneer has been confused with 

 his design of the Utility (figs. 6, 7). Smith designed 

 this compensating-lever engine to haul trains over the 

 C.V.R.R. bridge at Harrisburg. It was built by 

 Wilmarth in 1854. 



According to statements of Smith and the Board of 

 Managers quoted on page 244, the Pioneer and the 

 Jenny Lind were not new when purchased from their 

 maker, Seth Wilmarth. Although of recent manu- 

 facture, previous to June 1851, they were apparently 

 doing service on a road in Norwich, Connecticut. It 



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