Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive of the railway's Class A fast freight fleet, built in May 1950 at the railway's own Roanoke shops. It was the third of the last batch of five Class A engines, Nos. 1238 to 1242, which had Timken roller bearings and lightweight reciprocating parts to cut roundhouse maintenance and hammer blow on the rails. It was retired on August 26, 1959. Before that, on July 11, 1959, it was fired up to pull the railway's Farewell to Steam excursion from Roanoke to Bluefield, West Virginia, together with Y6b No. 2174. The railway chose not to preserve any Class A engine other than 1218, and 1240 was sold for scrap.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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No. 1240 was later sold for scrap as the N&W had no plans to preserve it or any of the A class at all.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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