N&W in 1907 -- Engines

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Bud check your numbers again on the 1907 engines. Cal Reynolds.
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These seventy five big "W" engines would have been the 75 Class M's (numbered 375-449) delivered from the Richmond Locomomotives Works [ALCO], while the 50 "identical" egines ordered from Baldwin would have been the M's numbered 450 to 449.

The one hundred engines ordered from both American and Baldwin mentioned in the second paragraph below would have been the almost identical M1 class which were delivered to the N&W in late 1907.

The biggest locomotives on the N&W in 1907 became the smallest road engines by late steam.

Bud Jeffries
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Big Engines for Use on the Pocahontas Division
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Roanoke News: The last shipment of three engines from the American Locomotive Works to the Norfolk and Western railroad is expected today and this will complete the order placed with the company for seventy-five of the big "W" engines. Nearly all of these engines are used on the Pocahontas division of the road and can pull long heavy trains of cars from the mines into the junctions. On account of their weight it is not considered advisable to use them on the Norfolk division on account of some of the long bridges.
The Norfolk and Western has placed an order with the American Locomotive Works for fifty more of the same class engines and fifteen passenger engines, and with the Baldwin Company of Philadelphia they have placed an order for fifty freight engines. This will make a total of one hundred and fifty new engines they have ordered besides the seventy-five just received.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 12, 1907

[It's hard to believe there was a time when the Class W, 2-8-0s were considered large engines and too heavy for the Norfolk division bridges.]

Gordon Hamilton


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