Following tests at the Altoona Test Plant, the Pennsylvania Railroad placed the engine in freight service between Enola Yard near Harrisburg and Morrisville Yard via the Trenton Cutoff. Placed on rollers without its tender, it was tested on the traction dynamometer to measure its performance, which included maximum drawbar horsepower.
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and remains there today.Īfter a series of brief test runs following construction, the 60000 was sent to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Test Plant in Altoona, Pennsylvania. In 1933, it was donated to the Franklin Institute Science Museum. However, its demonstration runs never persuaded railroads to purchase more. This locomotive was experimental and was meant to be the model for future development. The weight and length of the engine were too much for all but the heaviest and straightest tracks. Although compounding increases efficiency, it was an extra complication that the US railroads had mostly rejected by the middle twenties. It is also a compound, expanding the steam once in the inside cylinder and then again in the two outside cylinders.
This was intended to improve efficiency but the tubes were prone to burst inside the firebox.
Ħ0000 was very innovative, carrying unusual technology, including a water-tube firebox. It boasts three cylinders, weighs about 350 short tons (318 t 313 long tons), including tender, and can pull a load of up to 7,000 short tons (6,400 t 6,200 long tons). It was designed to be the best locomotive that Baldwin ever made. It received its number for being the 60,000th locomotive built by Baldwin. Indoor stationary display - until the mid 2010s, it moved back and forth 15 feet (4.6 m) on a short track powered by hydraulics īaldwin 60000 is an experimental steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in 1926, during the height of the railroading industry.