East Broad Top Locomotive Roster
4 (1st) - 'Cromwell'

After having been impressed by the performance of Locomotive #3, the EBT ordered two more, #4 and #5 of identical design in March 1874. One known exception to the design copy is that #4 appears to have had a straight stack early in it's career and may have been delivered with one.

#4 was named after Cromwell Township, the location of Rockhill and Orbisonia. The township was named after Thomas Cromwell, one of the founders of the Bedford Iron Furnace located where Orbisonia currently exists, the first iron furnace west of the Susquehanna River.

#4 was known as the 'jinx' engine of the early EBT. In September 1874, after only four days of operations she was the first locomotive to be wrecked, having derailed on spikes placed on the rail by two young boys. ^G3 June 1 the following year, she was again derailed by vandals and fell down an embankment. She was damaged badly enough to have to be returned to Baldwin for repairs. This may have been when she received her straight stack. June 17, 1879 a plug in the firebox blew out scalding the fireman, leading to his death.

#4 was retired in 1894, her disposition not known. She was likely scrapped.

General References

• G1 - East Broad Top - Lee Rainey and Frank Kyper - p. 214
• G2 - A Ramble into the Past on the East Broad Top - Brank Kyper - p.60-61
• G3 - East Broad Top - Lee Rainey and Frank Kyper - p. 35