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Class N (600-602) 4-4-2 Atlantic. Total built 3. Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1899.
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The 4-4-2 Atlantic type was no doubt the speediest steamer ever built. Many
had drive wheels seven feet in diameter, and in 1900 practically every high
speed passenger train in the east and middle west was powered by Atlantics.
One of them reached 127 miles per hour on the Pennsylvania between Washington
and New York. But the Atlantics were short of tractive effort and therefore not
used to any extent by NP, which specialized in heavy power. Three Class N Atlantics
were inherited from the St. Paul and Duluth and worked between those cities, and
between Duluth and Staples.
Photo of the high-wheeled 602 was made at Duluth in June, 1916. |
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