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".
Craig North Carolina
Beach Bill 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
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.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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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)
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?