EBT Locomotive Roster
2 (1st) - 'R D Wood'

First #2 was ordered new by the EBT in August 1872 from Baldwin to accompany the identical #1, built originally for the Cairo and Saint Louis. #2 served along with sister #1 after their delivery in June 1872 to operate the trains of building materials as the EBT's construction pushed up the mountain from Rockhill. No photos of #2 are known to have survived, but she was generally identical to #1 but had a much shorter life on the EBT. Unlike #1, #2 was delivered with a four axle (two truck) tender, but was soon converted to the same three axle arrangement as #1. Relatively underpowered compared to all later power, #1 and #2 spent most of their lives in passenger or shifter service.

#2 was named after Richard D. Wood, one of the early organizers of what would become the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company.

#2 was sold off about 1890 and went to the Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad, a logging operation in West Virginia. 1907 she was sold to the Valley River Railroad as their #1. After 1911 nothing more is known about her disposition.^G1 .^G2

General References

• G1 - East Broad Top - Lee Rainey and Frank Kyper - p. 214
• G2 - A Ramble into the Past on the East Broad Top - Frank Kyper - p.60-61