N & W 2-4-0 Locomotive

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Doesn't look like a Pilcher design . . .

EdKing
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> Does anyone have any info on this interesting N & W 2-4-0 "locomotive" 

> parked in front of the railroad's "New" General Office Building in 

> Roanoke?  The inscription on the stack appears to be "40/8."  The Forty & 

> Eight was formed in 1920 by  American Legionaires, and has been committed 

> to charitable aims.  The 40 and 8 designation stemed from the inscription 

> on narrow guage French box cars that provided crude transport for the 

> Yanks in World War I.  The inscription denoted that the cars could carry 

> forty men or eight horses (see: http://fortyandeight.org/background.htm)

> .

> Gordon Hamilton

>



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