The K-3, Wha Might Have Been

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Thereisa diagram for the N 4-8-4 which would have been  the worlds first.
The K-3 was doomed from the time it was decided to make it a 4-8-2 instead
of a 2-8-4
EKing

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 3:34 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> In various N&W books they had toyed with using the basic K-3 and a 4 wheel
> trailing truck for what would have been the N class 4-8-4. For various
> obvious reasons it never became more than paper.
>
> Roger Huber
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 01:22:32 PM CST, NW Mailing List via
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> It's too bad that N&W's Motive Power Department didn't believe a
> four-wheel trailing truck was necessary under the fire box.  If memory
> serves me correctly, Cousin Ed's book on the Class A mentioned that a
> two-wheel truck supporting a fire box burning high quality Pocahontas steam
> coal was deemed sufficient.  A four-wheel truck would have made it a 4-8-4,
> well before Alco delivered the first of that wheel arrangement to the
> Northern Pacific.  If N&W had built the first 4-8-4, it would be called the
> "Norfolk" type instead of the "Northern."
>
> What might have been.
>
> Bill King
> Arlington, Virginia
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