The K-3, Wha Might Have Been

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Yes it would have made a good 2-8-4 based on driver size.

John Rhodes

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 6:37 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> 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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