N&W in 1903 -- New Class J Locomotives

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Jeff,

I believe several brass models were produced.


Tom Anson








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> Other than the HO Mantua and Bowser models from several years ago, both 

> (I suspect) PRR-protoype, are there HO or N scale Atlantics available?

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> Jeff Cornelius

> Two Blocks from the N&W Valley Line

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>     The new passenger engines on

> the Norfolk and Western are capable of 113 miles an hour.  One engine 

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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

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> June 10, 1903

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> [These six would have been Class J 4-4-2s

> No. 600-605.  No. 606 was built in 1904 and exhibited at the St. Louis

> Exposition according to Prince's book on the N&W.  With 79" drivers, as

> contrasted with the modern Class J's 70" drivers, these 1903 

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> have been capable of 113 mph.]

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Tom Anson