[N&W] Re: NW Y3 becomes ATSF ?? becomes VGN USE

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Whoops !  The PRR references in my collection identify #1737 as the first K4.
Never did meet a PRR fan who could explain their non-sequential numbering,
though.

Jerry Crosson
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John,

In a book titled "Norfolk and Westerns Magnificent Mallets" by William
Warden, the following information is provided concerning "wandering" Y class
engines:

Y's that went to ATSF and eventually to the Virginian:

N&W road #,     ATSF road #,     Virginian road #
2021                    1790                    738
2022                    1791                    739
2015                    1792                    737
2026                    1793                    740
2014                    1794                    736
2029                    1795                    741
2035                    1796                    742
2042                    1797

I don't believe 2042 ever made it to the Virginian.

This book also includes one nice photo of Virginian 740 taken in 1949.   I
believe copies of this book may be available in the commissary.
Incidentally, if you are ever in the Chicago area, the last remaining Y3
(actually a Y3a) #2050 is on display at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union
Illinois if you want to see one up close.

Jason Maxwell
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Uh, Harry -

Pennsy didn't use the dash in locomotive classes as did N&W. You speak of
the K4, G5 and M1a classes. Similarly, their most famous electrics were the
GG1, P5, and E44 . . .

David P. Morgan rather whimsically suggested that Pennsy kept all its unused
steam locomotive numbers in a battered old top hat turned upside down on a
table in the mechanical department offices in Philly; when Altoona was going
to need a number for a new locomotive someone reached in the hat and pulled
out the next one. But they never pulled out any dashes for the
classifications . . .

EdKing