Bachmann Trains Pegasus Ready-to-Run HO Scale Train Set
By the late 1830s fast, elegant engines like the Norris 4-2-0 were available in several standard sizes suitable for the needs of any railroad. The Pegasus was built in 1839 for the Baltimore and Ohio's line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. racing along the first link in what would become the Northeast Corridor. The Pegasus earned its name, for Charles Dickens said of a sister Norris engine that if it had spread wings and flew away, no one would have been the least bit surprised.