Bausman Mine

The Bausman mine was a 19th-century coal mine in the Pittsburgh area. The mine was started in 1844 by Frederick Bausman, and ran underground from 12th Street in Birmingham, Pennsylvania (today South Side (Pittsburgh)) to Spiketown.[1] Coal from other mines in Spiketown was transferred through this mine using a steam locomotive.[2]

Bausman's Rhinoceros

The rhinoceros was an early steam locomotive, used in the Bausman mine. It was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge steam locomotive of an unusual design.[3][4] The original builder is unknown. It was re-built by Thatcher Perkins of the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works in 1867.[5] The locomotive is designed with an unusual driving mechanism, in order to minimize the vertical foces of the wheels on the iron tracks.

References

  1. ↑ "165. Bausman Mine". Report of Progress, Part 1 By Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. 1884. pp. 178–179. OCLC 2254706.
  2. ↑ Furman, H.V.; A.E. Swain (June 11, 1881). "Underground Haulage in the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania". The Mining and Engineering Journal 31: 400. |chapter= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ Bell, J. Snowden (January 1901). "Railway and locomotive engineering; a practical journal of motive power, rolling stock and appliances." XIV. New York: Angus Sinclair Company. p. 13. OCLC 1763393. |chapter= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Sinclair, Angus (1907). "An Original Form of Contractor's Locomotive". Development of the locomotive engine; a history of the growth of the locomotive from its most elementary form, showing the gradual steps made toward the developed engine, with biographical sketches of the eminent engineers and inventors who nursed it on its way to the perfected form of to-day. Many particulars are also given concerning railroad development. p. 505.
  5. ↑ Locomotives. Trains and technology : the American railroad in the nineteenth century 1. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press. 2002. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-87413-729-3. OCLC 249175603.