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In Service: 1919-1958
Variants: Various appliance changes by railroads that bought used ones from N&W.
Primary Assignments: Heavy coal trains and drag freights.
Although delivered too late for the war effort, the Norfolk & Western received 50 of these USRA engines in 1919, which it classified as Y-3. In 1923 another 30 were ordered with larger tenders (Y-3a), followed by 10 more in 1927 fitted with feedwater heaters.
Several Y-3s were sold to various power-short western railroads during World War II. Although well suited to coal-hauling duties in the Appalachians, the big articulateds proved too slow for most of their new owners and they were retired or sold following the war. N&W's Y-3s remained in service until 1958.
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