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Asketh Murphy Siding: "OK, I'm more confused. Why did they decide to call something a "J" or a "Y" class?" In some cases, it's hard to say. When the Js were built, there were lower sequential letters available, but the letter J had been used for fast passenger engines before (the first ones were 4-4-0s, the second were 79"-drivered 4-4-2s) so that might have been the motivation. In the case of the Y, the first experimental Mallets were obtained in 1910 and they were assigned to the lowest class letters available, which were X and Y (W's were a large group of 2-8-0s). The 5 0-8-8-0s were assigned the class X-1, the 5 2-8-8-2s were made Y-1. When the first of 190 2-6-6-2s were obtained in 1912, they were assigned the next letter, which was Z and were thus Z-1. N&W was not consistent in assigning numbers to the first examples of a class. All three series of Js were just Js (except the wartime J-1s later reclassed) and all three series of As were just As. But the first Mountains of 1916 were K-1s even though the original Ks had been off the roster for some years. The first M 4-8-0s of 1906 were just Ms; one might have expected them to be M-1s because there had been an earlier class M 4-4-0. But the N&W fan just considers these to be endearing eccentricities . . . Old Timer
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