| Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Machine Shops in June of 1887 with construction number #1150, #3 was the oldest of the EX: Pennsy 4-4-0s purchased by the Chesapeake Beach Railway between 1907 and 1910. Like Old #1, #3 started life working on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad as their #116. After the absorption of the PW&B into the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903, the locomotive was renumbered #5116 and classified as a D-7a on the official PRR roster. With the arrival of new, more powerful locomotives in the early teens, Pennsy management agreed to sell #5116 to the Chesapeake Beach Railway and in July of 1910, the engine was official purchased by the CB. Surprisingly, this locomotive wasn't actually the first engine numbered #3 on the Chesapeake Beach roster. The 1st #3 was originally purchased new from the Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works but was transferred to the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway and numbered #390. I use the word transferred because at that point in time, both the Chesapeake Beach and the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway were owned by the same people. Specifically, the estate of David H. Moffat of Denver, Rio Grande & Western Railroad fame. By the early 1920's, #3 was starting to show some wear and tear and was parked in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops until it could be disposed. Finally in the mid 1920's, the locomotive was officially retired and scrapped. This photograph shows #3 in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant Shops shortly before the engine was scrapped. |