![]() ![]() 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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