N&W in 1910--New equipment

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Ed,

Fifty M2 4-8-0 locos (1100 - 1149) were delivered by Baldwin in 1910 
beginning in September.  This would be the "FIFTY LOCOMOTIVES" stated in the 
headline.  I don't know why the reporter changed that number to 40 in the 
article.  Also, the article lists 16 passenger locos from American Loco. 
Works, Richmond, which would be the 16 E2's (564 - 579) delivered in 1910 
beginning in February.  Whoever added the headline without these 16 locos 
must have thought that passenger locomotives did not count.

Say tuned for articles on the Class X and Y1 loco also delevered in 1910.

Gordon Hamilton

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>I wonder what those forty Baldwin freight engines were.  They already had 

>the 50 M-2s and the five Y-1s, and the 15 Z-1s of 1912 were to come from 

>Richmond.

>

> EdK

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>> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

>> February 2, 1910

>>

>> FIFTY LOCOMOTIVES AND 2,500 FREIGHT CARS

>> ------

>> Total Amount of Norfolk and Western Contracts for Rolling Stock Exceeds 

>> $3,500,000

>>

>>     Roanoke, Va., Feb. 1--The Norfolk and Western Railway Company gave 

>> out contracts today for 2,500 cars and fifty locomotives.  The total 

>> amounts of the contracts exceeded $3,500,000.

>>     Contracts were awarded as follows:

>>     American Locomotive Works, Richmond, sixteen passenger engines.

>>     Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, forty freight engines.

>>     American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington, W. Va. 1,500 all steel 

>> cars, 50,000 capacity.

>>     American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington, W. Va. 500 steel side 

>> and underframe box cars, 40,000 pounds capacity.

>>     Western Steel Car and Foundry Co. Hegewisch, Ill. 500 all steel, 

>> fifty-ton gondolas.

>>     These concerns are under contract to begin delivery of these orders 

>> June 1, and it is fully expected that the entire combined orders of 

>> locomotives and cars will be ready for use by the time the proposed 

>> double trackage through the coal fields and through Ohio is completed.

>> -------

>> [I'll bet the "50,000 capacity" and "40,000 pounds capacity" were 

>> actually 50-tons capacity and 40-tons capacity, respectively.  These 

>> capacities were typical by 1910 as shown by an N&W drawing in the N&WHS 

>> Archives: C10157, TOP CENTER PLATE FOR 40 AND 50 TON FREIGHT CARS AND 

>> TENDERS, dated 12/06/1909.]

>>

>> Gordon Hamilton

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