The first Norfolk and Western J class was a group of 4-4-0 steam locomotives that the Norfolk and Western Railroad inherited when it acquired the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. Baldwin Locomotive Works in Pennsylvania began building them in 1879. The engines were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904, which left the J designation free for reuse. The railway applied it again to a class of 4-4-2 locomotives in 1903 and a third time to the celebrated streamlined 4-8-4 Northerns of 1941, so this earliest class is easily confused with its two successors. It is a small, short-lived American type of the nineteenth century, retained here as the origin of a letter that later became famous.
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They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904.
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They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904.
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They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904.
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Norfolk and Western Class J or the First J Class is a Class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and inherited by the Norfolk and Western Railroad when the latter acquired the former.
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They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904.
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They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904.
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They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904.
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Norfolk and Western Class J or the First J Class is a Class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and inherited by the Norfolk and Western Railroad when the latter acquired the former.
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Norfolk and Western Class J or the First J Class is a Class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and inherited by the Norfolk and Western Railroad when the latter acquired the former.
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