Pennsylvania Railroad class E1
Pennsylvania Railroad's E1 class comprised three experimental "Atlantic" locomotives built in 1899 to compete with the Reading Railroad on the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Atlantic City, New Jersey, high-speed seashore passenger train service. These engines were designed as cab-center or camelback locomotives with wide fireboxes and drivers that carried per axle. They proved capable in fast service but the inherent danger of separating the engineer from the fireman was unacceptable to the PRR so they were sold to their subsidiary the Long Island Rail Road in 1903. While the camelback design was unfavorable the Atlantic style proved to be everything the Pennsylvania Railroad needed at that time. They went on to acquire 596 additional units over the next fifteen years.