N&W in 1907 -- Engines

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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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