<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I have one of the brass ones. I am special because I own a Brazelton AutoQuarter to perfectly re-quarter the drivers. I swapped to a NWSL 36:1 gearbox and put heavy duty springs on the 4 axles. I put a bunch of lead strip in the boiler so it could pull lots like the prototype. I modeled 1920-1940 in western Va. my passenger cars had Norfolk & Western just like the small print below the engine number on the cab side. Nothing but tender number on the tender frame. Except<div>For the rail kinking they were useful during the war. 80K lbs tractive effort is similar to the Z class locos. They used them at the Radford ammo factory. </div><div>The brass models need new gear boxes and re quartering. Adding weight also helps their performance. </div><div>The K3 is proof that if more is better then too much is just right……..</div><div><br><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Mark Lindsey<div>Y3a@earthlink.net</div><div>571-352-6358(cell)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 20, 2025, at 3:03 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Afternoon all,</div>
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For all N&W designers & engineers would rather gloss over this class that didn't live up to their expectation and are cited as blot on the Roanoke Shops' drawing board, I have always quite liked them and models won't hammer the track like the prototypes so
I have always wanted to add one to my roster. Yes I know they were gone by 1944 and I model 1953-6 but rule #1 applies and atleast one didn't get sold...</div>
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What was going to be a simple, buy a model, paint it and put into service, became getting a second one already painted and then noticing differences... Only one model run so not a variation. Turns out the painted model was of a D&RGW M-69, which is what they
became when 4 of them were sold. I noticed some of the details present on the M-69 were visible on pictures of K3s later in service on N&W so I'm in the process of trying to work out what changes were made to the K3s from as delivered to when they were sold
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Has there been any "comprehensive" article in the Arrow or maybe somewhere else in the press about N&W K3s? Changes/improvements/upgrades etc</div>
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I have loads of books on N&W motive power but most gloss over the K3s and at best a single page and maybe a picture.</div>
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I have managed to trace history of all 10 through RF&P/D&RGW to W&LE and to NKP ownership. I've found pictures of most at some point in their careers and some I've found a picture in each corporate livery. Ironically pictures of them in N&W service are the
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My gut feeling at the moment is that a D&RGW M-69 may be the better starting point for an end of N&W service K3 than an as delivered N&W K3. </div>
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Any guidance appreciated.</div>
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If I manage to come up with anything conclusive I will try and put something together for others.</div>
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Regards</div>
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Martin</div>
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