E3 locomotives

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Thank you, Jim

Walter Davis

On 11/6/2022 4:22 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> The E3's were retired late 1946 and early 1947
>
> Jim Nichols
>
> On Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 10:40:41 AM CST, NW Mailing List via 
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> I stand corrected; Jim Nichols is right.  The 5 locos were PRR K3, not 
> K2.  The two PRR classes look very much alike, but the K3's were 5 
> years newer, and had 26" dia cylinders instead of 24" on the K2's.
>
> Dave Stephenson
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>
>
> On Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 08:20:49 AM EST, NW Mailing List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Walter Davis asked why only 5 E3 locomotives were built. The answer is 
> that the N&W did not have them built. They BOUGHT them from the PRR in 
> 1934. PRR had lots of them, which they classed as K3's. When they 
> built the first K4, it was a better locomotive, so they built a lot of 
> K4's. Apparantly, N&W wanted to retire their first J's, which were 
> 4-4-2's, so they bought 5 PRR K3's to replace them, and gave them the 
> N&W class of E3.
>
> Jim Nichols
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