The Chesapeake and Ohio class K-4 was a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives bought during and shortly after World War II to help the railway's aging 2-8-2 Mikados in general freight service. Unlike most American roads, the C&O nicknamed the class Kanawha after a West Virginia river rather than Berkshire. The design reproduced earlier Nickel Plate Road and Pere Marquette 2-8-4 plans but added boosters and moved the steam dome behind the sandboxes, a change made to avoid water overflowing on the C&O's downhill grades. Numbers 2700 to 2789 were built between 1943 and 1947 by the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Works, and twelve survive in preservation.
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were built between 1943 and 1947 by the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Works
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were built between 1943 and 1947 by the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Works
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a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives
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a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives
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a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives
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Twelve Kanawhas have been preserved
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were built between 1943 and 1947 by the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Works
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