In 1893 and 1894 the Richmond & Danville Railroad received a total of 14 ten-wheelers. Nine of these came from Baldwin and five from Richmond. The locomotives of the two manufacturers hardly differed, a small difference was the grate area of 27.9 and 28.2 square feet respectively.

One of the Baldwin locomotives had a Vauclain compound engine with four cylinders and a slightly higher boiler pressure. It was initially built with 14 and 24 inches diameter cylinders, but was rebuilt directly to 15 and 25 inches diameters.

When the Richmond & Danville was bought up by the Southern Railway in 1894, the locomotives were reclassified to the class F-1. Also in this class were other similar engines built directly for the Southern at about the same time. The scrapping of the 14 locomotives of the former class 820 took place between 1932 and 1939.