Norfolk and Western 2300, known as the Jawn Henry after the folk hero John Henry, was a single experimental steam turbine locomotive of class TE, designed to show the advantages of steam turbines advocated by Baldwin chief engineer Ralph P. Johnson. It was a C+C-C+C with twelve powered axles and a Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boiler working at 600 psi, and it was the longest steam locomotive ever built. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton received the order in 1954 and delivered it in May of that year. Its complex controls, coal dust in the traction motors, high cost and poor speed against the Class A all counted against it. It failed to replace the Y6b Mallets, was stricken in January 1958 and scrapped in 1961.
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Source Norfolk and Western 2300 (Wikipedia)History 1954-1961, builderQuote, History 1954-1961, builder
The order for the N&W 2300 was submitted to the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation in 1954 and subsequently completed and launched in May that same year.
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Norfolk and Western 2300, also known as the Jawn Henry, was a single experimental steam turbine locomotive of the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States.
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The order for the N&W 2300 was submitted to the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation in 1954 and subsequently completed and launched in May that same year.
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Norfolk and Western 2300, also known as the Jawn Henry, was a single experimental steam turbine locomotive of the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States.
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Number 2300 was retired, stricken from the N&W roster on January 4, 1958, and scrapped later in 1961.
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Norfolk and Western 2300, also known as the Jawn Henry, was a single experimental steam turbine locomotive of the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States.
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The order for the N&W 2300 was submitted to the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation in 1954 and subsequently completed and launched in May that same year.
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Norfolk and Western 2300, also known as the Jawn Henry, was a single experimental steam turbine locomotive of the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States.
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Norfolk and Western 2300, also known as the Jawn Henry, was a single experimental steam turbine locomotive of the Norfolk and Western Railway in the United States.
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