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Norfolk and Western J Class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1879· class of American 4-4-0 locomotives
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- 1. Class J 4-4-0 No. 19: Unknown author Unknown author· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Norfolk and Western Class J or the First J Class is a Class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and inherited by the Norfolk and Western Railroad when the latter acquired the former. They were built from 1879 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Pennsylvania, and they were retired in 1900 and scrapped by 1901 and 1904. This was the first "J" class, and was followed by the J class of 1903 and the J class of 1941.
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 147 years ago, in 1879.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1879
- retired
- 1900
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Shenandoah Valley Railroad, Norfolk and Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6951245, Wikipedia: Norfolk and Western J Class (1879) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.