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Norfolk and Western J Class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1903· class of 7 American 4-4-2 locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Nw606: Cak22· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Image from page 412 of "Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1901): Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
what is it?
Norfolk and Western Class J of 1903 or the Second J Class was a class of 4-4-2 steam locomotives purchased by Norfolk and Western Railway. They were before the more well known J class of 1941. The retirement of the first J classes in 1900 left the designation available for reuse for these engines.
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 123 years ago, in 1903.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 33.2 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1903
- retired
- 1935
- status
- retired
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Norfolk and Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-2
- length
- 33.2 m
- weight
- 76.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6951244, Wikipedia: Norfolk and Western J Class (1903) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.