The Y3 and Y3a classes were 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotives, eighty of which the Norfolk and Western Railway received between 1919 and 1923. The Y3 was the United States Railroad Administration standard 2-8-8-2, itself derived from the railway's Y2 prototype No. 1700, and forty-five came from ALCO Schenectady with five more from Baldwin in 1919. After federal control ended, the railway ordered thirty near-identical Y3a engines from ALCO's Richmond works in 1923. They hauled coal and general freight over the Blue Ridge grades, were rebuilt around 1930 with higher boiler pressure, and began to be withdrawn from the 1950s as diesels took over. Only Y3a No. 2050 has been preserved.
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The N&W received forty-five locomotives (Nos. 2000-2044) of the USRA design in February, April, and May of 1919 from the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Schenectady Works, and the railway classified them as Y3s.
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Five more Y3s (Nos. 2045-2049) were delivered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in August and September that same year.
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During this time, the United States Railroad Administration (USRA), which was created to control and standardize North American railroads during World War I, assigned the N&W, the Virginian Railway, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) to their Pocahontas Region, with N&W president Nicholas D. Mahler serving as the regional manager.
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The Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a were classes of 2-8-8-2 "Mallet" articulated steam locomotives, with a total of 80 locomotives built for the Norfolk and Western Railway between 1919 and 1923.
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The Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a were classes of 2-8-8-2 "Mallet" articulated steam locomotives, with a total of 80 locomotives built for the Norfolk and Western Railway between 1919 and 1923.
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2003 became the first Y3 to be retired from the N&W and sold for scrap, and within the next two years, the rest of the Y3s were also withdrawn from service, as the N&W began to dieselize their roster.
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The N&W received forty-five locomotives (Nos. 2000-2044) of the USRA design in February, April, and May of 1919 from the American Locomotive Company's (ALCO) Schenectady Works, and the railway classified them as Y3s.
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Five more Y3s (Nos. 2045-2049) were delivered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in August and September that same year.
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During this time, the United States Railroad Administration (USRA), which was created to control and standardize North American railroads during World War I, assigned the N&W, the Virginian Railway, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) to their Pocahontas Region, with N&W president Nicholas D. Mahler serving as the regional manager.
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The Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a were classes of 2-8-8-2 "Mallet" articulated steam locomotives, with a total of 80 locomotives built for the Norfolk and Western Railway between 1919 and 1923.
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The Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a were classes of 2-8-8-2 "Mallet" articulated steam locomotives, with a total of 80 locomotives built for the Norfolk and Western Railway between 1919 and 1923.
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