Are there any N&W Y6b’s that escaped the scrap yard? If they exist, where are they and are they open to the public for viewing?[8D]
Sadly, the only surviving N&W 2-8-8-2 I’ve heard of is a Y3, which was at the National Museum of Transportation (St Louis) some years ago. Stuart Saunders wasn’t big on preserving history, and N&W’s steam died on his watch (Bloody knife in hand…)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Sorry. I think that the closest that you’ll find is N&W Y3a #2050 (Alco, 1923) at the Illinois RR Museum in Union, IL. It was protected within a large building the last time I visited Union.
Bill
She’s still there. Too bad about the Y6’s, from all I read none were preserved.
Thanks for the responses. I have some family in St. Louis. I should visit the N&W Y3 and maybe see the family. Probably not, the locomotive would be great but the family is “otherwise”.[+o(]
As of 2008 there are two surviving Y class 2-8-8-2 locomotives. N&W 2050 is from the railroad’s Y3a class; ALCO’s Richmond works built it in 1923; and it resides at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, USA. N&W 2156 is from the railroad’s Y6a class; N&W’s own Roanoke Shops built it in 1942; and it resides at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Roger Huber