The mine was started in 1844 by Frederick Bausman, and ran underground from 12th Street in Birmingham, Pennsylvania (modern South Side, Pittsburgh) to Spiketown.
[2] The "rhinoceros" was an early steam locomotive used in the Bausman mine.
It was a 3 ft (914 mm) steam locomotive built for a narrow-gauge railway of an unusual design.
It was rebuilt by Thatcher Perkins of the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works in 1867.
[5] The locomotive was designed with an unusual driving mechanism in order to minimize the vertical forces of the wheels on the iron tracks.