What Class Is This Engine?

[starman]

I have the following engine I received from my son.  Can someone tell me the class of this engine.  It is a HO Proto 2000 Heritage, item #23338, N&W, 2-8-8-2, Cab #2005.  Thanks for your help!

[cv_acr]

Looks like the N&W class was Y3:

https://nwhs.org/qna/nw_steam_1942.html

["JaBear"]

cv_acr

Looks like the N&W class was Y3:

Yep!

https://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=USA&wheel=2-8-8-2&railroad=nw#1421

[gmpullman]

Ten or so were sold to the PRR. I repainted my N&W #2019 to represent one of these (reclassed) HH1s on the PRR:

PRR_HH1b by Edmund, on Flickr

The Proto Heritage model is a fine-running machine 

Good Luck, Ed

[SeeYou190]

The Proto model is a USRA 2-8-8-2. The N&W called these class Y3, but the Proto model is not a perfect representation of this model. It is close enough for probably 99% of the modelers.

I would like to get one, and a N&W Class A 2-6-6-4 for the SGRR roster, but I probably never will.

I already have the B&O Class EM1 2-8-8-4. I think these locomotives make a great family.

-Kevin

[dknelson]

gmpullman

Ten or so were sold to the PRR.

I believe the Santa Fe and perhaps Rio Grande had some also, during WWII when railroads were short of power due to thinning the roster during the Depression.  There was a fair amount of steam locomotive horse trading that went on during the War.

Dave Nelson

[DrW]

dknelson

 

gmpullman

Ten or so were sold to the PRR.

 

 

I believe the Santa Fe and perhaps Rio Grande had some also, during WWII when railroads were short of power due to thinning the roster during the Depression.  There was a fair amount of steam locomotive horse trading that went on during the War.

Dave Nelson

 

Yes, the Santa Fe bought eight of them from the N&W during WWII, ATSF #s 1790 - 1797. All pics I have seen show them as helpers on the Raton Pass. Seven were sold to the Virginian in 1948, one was scrapped.  

 

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https://www.american-rails.com/y.html

 

[starman]

Thanks to all who replied.  I now know I have a Y3 engine.

Jack

[BEAUSABRE]

DrW

Yes, the Santa Fe bought eight of them from the N&W during WWII, ATSF #s 1790 - 1797. All pics I have seen show them as helpers on the Raton Pass. Seven were sold to the Virginian in 1948, one was scrapped.    

ATSF judged them too slow for anything else, (but they freed up engines that could be used as road power elsewhere), which is why they sold them quickly when volume dropped postwar. They were drag engines. Worse than that, they were ARTICULATEDS! Uncle John got burned so bad in the teens, that he never again bought a new one. OTOH, they fitted the operations of the VGN perfectly, which was quite happy with its USRA Double Consolidations (classes USA and USB). Anyway, here is one of them pulling what I think is the wartime Super Chief up Raton Pass.