Owner-painted Norfolk And Western Class A single expansion articulated
locomotives. These locomotives were imported from Ajin (Korea) by Overland
Models in 1989. These two locomotives are often double-headed on long
freights on the club layout. At this particular show they pulled Bill
Boucher's famous circus train.
1214 in the foreground represents the last of N&W's Class A locomotives to
be retired (May 28, 1959). 1212 (in the background) is seen in the classic
N&W publicity shot of three N&W locomotives side by side. (The other two
are J Class number 634 and Y Class number 2147.) One of these locomotives
survives but had been torn down for a boiler overhaul when Norfolk Southern
terminated their steam excursion program and it's future is uncertain.
E-8 numbers 1012 and 1013 still carry the R F & P colors but were lettered
for Norfolk And Western when N&W leased them while awaiting their diesel
order fulfillment in 1959. These are owner-painted River Raisin units
manufactured by Ajin in Korea.