bar horsepower at 25 mph and a maximum starting tractive effort (in simple) of 170,000 pounds. N&W’s Roanoke Shops built all the later compound 2-8-8-2s. During World War II, several
roads were short of power and, as the Y3s had been supplanted in main line service on the N&W by the more powerful Y5s and Y6s, some Y3s were surplus. N&W sold a total of 19 to the Pennsylva- nia Railroad, Santa Fe, and Union Pacific. Santa Fe bought eight in 1943 — N&W road numbers 2021, 2022, 2015, 2026, 2014, 2029, 2035, 2042 — which they renumbered 1790–1797 respec- tively and put to work as helpers on the Raton Pass line that crossed the Colorado–New Mexico bor- der. Although intended for Raton Pass, the locomotives occasionally served elsewhere. No. 1794 once teamed with a 4000-class 2-8- 2 to haul No. 29, the night meat train to Emporia, Kansas, from Atchison. Nos. 1790 and 1791 served for a short period of time as switchers at Argentine Yard. Af- ter the war, the Santa Fe scrapped the 1797 (ex-2042), and sold the other seven to the Virginian as their class USE, road numbers 736–742. The Virginian operat- ed all seven for another seven to
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eight years before retiring them in 1954–1955. The Pennsylvania bought class
leader 2000 as well as 2008, 2027, 2034, 2036, and 2046 in 1943. (The 2046 was the only Baldwin-built Y3 sold; the others all came from Alco.) Designat- ing them as HH1 and numbering them 373–378, the Pennsy oper- ated the sextet on drag freights between Hagerstown, Maryland, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Af- ter World War II ended, the HH1s were reassigned to the Columbus, Ohio, area until they were retired in 1947–1949. Union Pacific bought five of
the USRA heavy 2-8-8-2s in June 1945 — N&W 2030, 2020, 2025, 2041, 2013 — which they des- ignated MC-57 and numbered 3670–3674. After they operated
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for two years in Wyoming, UP scrapped the class. No original USRA 2-8-8-2s sur-
vived, but one Y3a, N&W 2050, a 1923 Alco product, did. It is on display at the Illinois Railway Museum. In early 2000, Life-Like re-
leased the Y3a in both N&W and ATSF paint in their “heritage” line. Later, Life-Like released the mod- el in Virginian and UP colors. In 2005, Walthers acquired Life-Like and released the Y3a with sound. These models, like the drawings accompanying this article (the drawing is numbered for a Y3, but the sublettering is for a Y3a), rep- resented the Y3 class in its later form with the new boiler, feedwa- ter heater, and air pumps mount- ed on the right side, and large N&W tender.
N&W 2016 N&W 2016 is at Roanoke, Virginia, on December 30, 1952. She has an auxiliary tender, which indicates she might be used in road service even though she has a switcher pilot. She also is without the normal feedwater heater on the fireman’s side. — Louis A. Marre collection
REMARKS Reclassified as Y5
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