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Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1919· class of 30 American 2-8-8-2 locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Norfolk & Western 2050: H. Michael Miley· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1921) (14571941129): Internet Archive Book Images· No restrictions
what is it?
The Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a were classes of 2-8-8-2 "Mallet" articulated steam locomotives, with a total of 80 locomotives built for the Norfolk and Western Railway between 1919 and 1923.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 107 years ago, in 1919.
- Weighs about as much as 40 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 34.4 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 36 years (1923–1959).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1919–1923
- in service from
- 1923
- retired
- 1959
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Norfolk and Western Railway, Virginian Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Union Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-8-2
- length
- 34.4 m
- weight
- 241 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q123682099, Wikipedia: Norfolk and Western classes Y3 and Y3a (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.