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Locomotive profile: 2-6-6-4 Class A type steam locomotive

By Angela Cotey | February 20, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 Class A type steam locomotive pulls an excursion train in 1988.

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Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 Class A type steam locomotive pulls an excursion train in 1988.
Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 Class A type steam locomotive pulls an excursion train in 1988.
Jim Wrinn
2-6-6-4

•YEARS BUILT: 1934 to 1950

•MANUFACTURERS: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Norfolk & Western

•OPERATED ON: Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Seaboard Air Line, Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western

•NAME: Norfolk & Western referred to the model as the Class A

•QUANTITY: 60; N&W had the most with 43

•BOILER PRESSURE: 300 psi

•KNOWN FOR: High speed freight and some passenger service

•STATUS: Only remaining example is N&W 1218, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Va.