Norfolk and Western 1218 is the only surviving Class A 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive, and so the only surviving locomotive of that wheel arrangement from its railway. The Roanoke East End Shops built it in June 1943 to haul fast freight and passenger trains. It was retired in July 1959 and sold to the Union Carbide Company, which used it as a stand-by stationary boiler at South Charleston, West Virginia. F. Nelson Blount bought it for his Steamtown collection, and in 1969 it returned to Roanoke for display. Norfolk Southern restored it for its steam excursion program from 1987 to 1991, and after that program was cancelled in 1994 it went back to the Virginia Museum of Transportation, which received it as a donation in 2012.
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It was built in June 1943 by N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia to haul both fast passenger and freight trains around the N&W system.
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It was built in June 1943 by N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia to haul both fast passenger and freight trains around the N&W system.
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It was built in June 1943 by N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia to haul both fast passenger and freight trains around the N&W system.
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Norfolk and Western 1218 is the only surviving example of the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) class A 2-6-6-4 steam locomotives.
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It was built in June 1943 by N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia to haul both fast passenger and freight trains around the N&W system.
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It was built in June 1943 by N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia to haul both fast passenger and freight trains around the N&W system.
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Norfolk and Western 1218 is the only surviving example of the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) class A 2-6-6-4 steam locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1218 is the only surviving example of the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) class A 2-6-6-4 steam locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 1218 is the only surviving example of the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) class A 2-6-6-4 steam locomotives.
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