New Member & Tallulah Falls Railway #73

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Kenneth

Baldwin 4-6-0 23848 was built March 1904 with 17x24 Cyl. 56 inch 
drivers as the TF # 3. The Baldwin records indicate it was built as a 
4ft. 9inch gauge locomotive. The number was apparently changed to 73 
at a later date.

Baldwin 2-8-0  15154 was built Jan. 1897 as N&W number 354.  It was 
renumbered 202 July 1906. Sold to the Tulluah Falls as their  # 72 
after the N&W retired the locomotive in 1911. It was one of the 7 
class G1 locomotives.  The 353/201/7 is in a park in Bluefield, WV 
and the 352 Renumbered 200 and  finally # 6 is in the Roanoke 
Transportation Museum.

Jim Blackstock


>My model railroad is a fictional extension of the Tallulah Falls 

>Railway, from Franklin, NC to Almond, NC, where it meets up with 

>Southern's Murphy Branch.  In researching the history of the TF's 

>motive power, I found that at least two locomotives came from the 

>N&W.  One was a consolidation, #72, which is shown as being N&W 

>#354, and/or(?) #202.  It was built in 1897 by Baldwin, builder's 

>number 15154.  While I would like to learn more about that 

>locomotive, it is the other that I am interested in at the 

>moment.  Everything I know about this locomotive can be summed up in 

>the following line -

>

>#73 - 4-6-0 - BLW 23848 3/04 - orig. TF #3 - 17x24-56 - orig. N&W

>

>This must have been a relatively small ten wheeler, to have 56" 

>drivers.  Does anyone know what class or number this may have been 

>on the N&W? Ideally, does anyone have photos, or at least a little 

>more information about her?  I have a small drivered Bachmann ten 

>wheeler (lettered for Southern) which I am hoping would be a 

>reasonable stand-in for this engine.