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I can verify reading princes book 1331 is the lowest numbered engine to 
get the treatment from an L1a to an L1b. N&W is no stranger to reworking 
their engines, The point is about the L1b it has low pressure front 
cylinders, while the L1a is basically a full simple engine.
This is about grinding on the mountains to move that coal at low speed. 
The simple engines could move faster. The reason why is the larger 
cylinders at higher speed cause reverse pressures which does not work 
well for higher speeds, but low speeds are fine, why the Y class 
compound development, drag that freight over them mountains.
N&W could probably pick and choose the best engines in condition to take 
the modification and last many more years, and that they did with all of 
their steam lineup, but again other lower end steamers met the scrappers 
torch while steam technology advanced.  The Roanoke shops were very 
talented keeping the steam fleet alive why many of the older engines 
lasted to the end. M2c's built in 1917 still working in 1958? wotta run.

-Lynn-

On 5/16/2015 7:30 AM, nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:
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> yabbut the 1333 and 1334 didn’t last to the end like the 1331 and 1339 
> did . . .
> EdK
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> Ed, http://nwhs.org/data/steam/ says 1333 and 1334 were also 
> converted, 07-1930 and 12-1929 respectively, not that it's a big deal...
> Dave Phelps
> In a message dated 5/15/2015 2:43:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
>
>     Yep, it was the lowest-numbered 2-6-6-2 to be converted.  Since it
>     was one of the second order of the 2-6-6-2s, one wonders what
>     drove the decision not to convert a lower numbered engine.  Luck
>     of the draw, perhaps; the 1331 and 1339 were the only two
>     converted out of the order that covered the 1315-1339.
>     All you who guessed right, you win the prizes; go buy yourselves a
>     drink.
>     EK
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