| Built by the Burnham, Williams & Company subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in January of 1891 with construction number #14683, #7 was originally owned by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railway as their 2nd #14 and hauled passenger trains all across Virginia's Eastern Shore until 1916 when it was sold to the Southern Iron & Equipment Company locomotive re seller of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1916. Assigned inventory number #1037 while owned by the SI&E Company, the locomotive was sold to the Brooklyn Cooperage Company's Butler County Railroad as their #11 located in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on July 14, 1916. However, the locomotive was returned to the SI&E Company later that year after being considered surplus power and was assigned inventory number #1039. On March 13, 1917, the locomotive was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway and numbered #7 and served on the railway hauling passenger trains until the bankruptcy of the line in 1935. It was actually still on the property when the East Washington Railway assumed freight operations on the line from Chesapeake Junction in Washington D.C. to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, in 1936. The engine was probably used as a parts engine and was finally scrapped in February of 1942. This Charles E. Winters photographs shows #7 sitting in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops on June 3, 1935. Note the date as being after the Chesapeake Beach when their final train in April of 1935. |