Norfolk and Western 2050 is the only preserved locomotive of the Y3a class, a 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company at its Richmond, Virginia works. It was the first of thirty Y3a engines that the railway ordered as copies of the United States Railroad Administration design. It hauled freight and coal trains, and by the end of the 1950s it worked as a hump yard switcher in Williamson, West Virginia, and Portsmouth, Ohio. It was retired in 1959 and sold for scrap to Armco Steel of Middletown, Ohio, which kept it as a stationary boiler. It was donated to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1975, moved to Union, Illinois, in 1976, and is on static display there.
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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As of 2026, No. 2050 is on static display at the IRM.
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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Norfolk and Western 2050 is a class Y3a 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet steam locomotive built in March 1923 by the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Richmond, Virginia Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
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