N&W Pacific = Pensy K4?

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Tue Mar 11 07:10:44 EDT 2008


These were former PRR K3 pacifics that N&W acquired around WWII if I
remember correctly; there have been articles in the Arrow on the prototype
and how to model one.

Jim Brewer
Glenwood MD

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> Hanging in the lounge at the Raleigh, NC passenger station is a photograph

> of an N&W pacific (probably #503?) at Durham, NC. Looking at the photo,

> it struck me how much like a Pennsylvania K4 Pacific it looks. With the

> exception of the distinctive tender, I could almost believe I was looking

> at a Pensy engine. Did the N&W and Pensy share locomotive designs, or is

> it merely a case of accidental similarity?

>

> I took a photo of the photo, and can send it if it would help, though the

> quality isn't the greatest.

>

> Kenneth Rickman

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