New York Central Mohawk

The New York Central Mohawk was the railroad's name for its 4-8-2 steam locomotives, called Mountain types on other roads. The Central picked the name of the river its Water Level Route followed and became the largest user of the type in North America, with 600 built in four main classes. ALCO delivered the first, the freight-only L-1 of 1916, and most of the later ones, but Lima built the L-1c sub-class, fifteen of the L-3b locomotives, which have a plated-over feedwater heater giving a distinct smokebox front, and all fifty of the L-4 class of 1942. Only two Mohawks survive, both ALCO-built, at the National Museum of Transportation in Missouri and the National New York Central Railroad Museum in Indiana.