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The Y4 (originally Y3b) were the last new N&W engines to be built outside the Roanoke works by an independent manufacturer, in this case Alco at Richmond. Number series 2080-9.
2080 was
the first Y4, built in 1927 by Alco, Richmond. |
An interesting
view of the firebox door, and the coal screw feed beneath the
footplate, on a Y4 locomotive. |
2082 on
the turntable, probably at Bluefield, VA. The Y4 were the first
Y classes to have the sloping front sheet on the cab, called
"sports model cabs." |
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