Stephen Lafayette Pagenhardt
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Stephen Lafayette Pagenhardt was an early Live Steam modeler from Cumberland County, Maryland. Stephen built a 1.5 inch scale, 7-1/4 inch gauge 4-4-0 named Little Maryland. He was 16 years old at the time. The model was subsequently featured at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Little Maryland
Stephen Lafayette Pagenhardt with the fully operating scale model Little Maryland steam engine he designed and built in the late nineteenth century. Inset: The actual C&P locomotive Maryland Stephen selected as his model. It was built in 1865 in Norris, Pennsylvania and rebuilt in 1898 and 1902 at Mount Savage, Maryland. Photo from Mountain Discoveries.
Little Maryland specification:
- 1.5 inch scale
- 7-1/4 inch gauge
- Based on Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad 4-4-0 Maryland
- Boiler contained twenty three tubes, one-half inch each
- Brass cylinders
- Wheel base: 26 inches
- Tender: three gallon capacity
- Total length: 64 inches
- Weight: 190 pounds
- Track: cast iron
The Little Maryland was the first operating model steam locomotive in Western Maryland. The British publication, 7-1/4 News, published an article suggesting that Stephen's locomotive was the first 7-1/4 inch gauge locomotive built in the United States.