![]() ![]() 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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