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Class N-1 (603-605) 4-4-2 Atlantic. Total built 3.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1909.


NP ordered three Atlantics in 1909. They were speedy and good looking but as one engineer put it, "They can run like a scared jackrabbit but can't pull a hen off the nest." No more were ordered.

603, 604 and 605 worked in the Twin City, Duluth and Staples territory and for a time on branches out of Mandan, but never west of Mandan.

Here 603 is leaving St. Paul on the Duluth local passenger run in July 1934.

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