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Norfolk and Western magazine ad with system map, 1948. The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), [1] commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.
2174 was the one of the last steam locomotives to be withdrawn in the USA. Y7: 2-8-8-2 - - Never built 0 - Never built Never built [2] Z1: 2-6-6-2: 1300–1314: Alco-Richmond: 1912: 10: 0: 1934: Z1a: 2-6-6-2: 1315–1489: Alco-Richmond, Baldwin: 1912–1918: 175: 0: 1934–1958: 1331–1489 rebuilt to Z1b, 1399 rebuilt to Z2 Steam turbine ...
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
Norfolk and Western 2156 is a preserved Y6a class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive. The Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) built it in 1942 at its own Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as the second member of the N&W's Y6a class. No. 2156 and its class are considered to be the world's strongest-pulling extant steam locomotive to ever be built.
Norfolk and Western 2050 is a Y3a class 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). The locomotive primarily helped haul the N&W's freight and coal trains, but by the end of the 1950s, it was relegated as a hump yard ...
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
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No. 1218 is the sole survivor of the Norfolk and Western's class A locomotives and the only surviving 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive in the world. While smaller than Union Pacific's famous and more numerous "Challenger" class of 4-6-6-4 locomotives, Norfolk and Western's design racked up unmatched records of performance in service.