N&W in 1910--New Mallets

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 13, 1910

MALLET ENGINES WILL ARRIVE NEXT MONTH
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Six Cents an Hour Additional Pay Granted to the Men Who Will Run Monsters
    The new Mallet engines, about which there has been so much talk and which have been so anxiously expected, are to arrive on the Pocahontas division between the 1st and 15th of next month.  The engines of which there have been ten ordered will be put to work at once.  It is claimed for them that they will haul twice as much as the largest engines which are now in use on the road [Class M2 4-8-0s] and anticipating their arrival the Norfolk and Western has strengthened a large number of its bridges over which the engines will have to pass.  In many cases new bridges have been built and the roadbed put in shape to accommodate the monsters which are really two engines in one.
    The engineers who will run them have had their wage questions settled.  In this connection the coming of the Mallet engines was provided for, it being understood that six cents an hour additional pay was granted to the men who run the monsters.
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[The ten Mallets would have been the five X1 0-8-8-0 and five Y1 2-8-8-2 Mallets, of which neither group was particularly successful.]

Gordon Hamilton
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