Live Steam Model J

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Gordon:  That was the window of Bluefield Furniture Co., and it would 
have been after 1946, when I moved to the apartment on Princeton Avenue. 
The freight engine with it was either a 4-8-2 or Cowling's fanciful 
non-streamlined 4-8-4 (I can't remember which, but it was definitely not 
an A.)  Jim Nichols

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>I remember seeing this model in the front display window of a Bluefield, WV,
>store when I was a child.  I would guess the time frame to be the late
>1930's or early 1940's.  It seems as though it was in the window of a store
>on Princeton Avenue, maybe a furniture store.  It also seems to me that it
>was displayed alongside a same-size model steam freight locomotive, maybe a
>Class A.
>
>Gordon Hamilton
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>>I believe this may be the same J featured in the June
>>1953 N&W magazine, page 308-309.  It was made by N&W
>>machinist W. E. Cowling, Bluefield Shop.
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>>Dave Stephenson
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>>>My neighbor has a picture of a live steam model of a
>>>Class J locomotive.
>>>According to the caption with the photo, it was
>>>constructed by a machinist
>>>working at the Bluefield machine shop. It was
>>>operated for some period at a
>>>camp near Bluefield.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any additional information about
>>>this model or know its
>>>whereabouts today?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>Ron Davis
>>>
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