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Built in 1943 at in the Roanoke Shops in Roanoke, Virginia. The Norfolk and Western Railway built the most powerful Steam Locomotive with the highest tractive effort ever built on wheels. The Railways own Class A 2-6-6-4 Locomotive. Built in the 1940's as duel services engines. They pulled, Heavy Coal trains, Mix trains and even military and troop trains during WW2. N&W built 43 of theses power houses on wheels.All were scraped but one was saved. Class No.1218 was bought by purchased by the Union Carbide Co. Where it was used as a stationary boiler at a chemical plant. In 1965, No. 1218 was repurchased by New England millionaire F. Nelson Blount for his locomotive collection at Steamtown, U.S.A. in Bellows Falls, Vermont. N&W would repurchased the Locomotive three years later gave it a cosmetic restoration and was put on display at the Roanoke Transportation Museum in 1971.
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One of Norfolk & Western's finest locomotives ever built is the mammoth of a articulated mallet #1218.
This giant was built by the N&W's Roanoke Shops at Roanoke, Virginia in 1943 during WWII.
It was also the last-remaining sample of 43 constructed 2-6-6-4 Class 'A' locomotives, equally at home of hauling merchandise freight trains and coal drags as they crossed through the Appalachian Mountains.
Retired in 1959, the 1218 was sold to a chemical plant at West Virginia as a stationary boiler for five years.
In 1965, the locomotive was sold to Steamtown at Vermont on display before 1970 marked its home return on display again at the Virginia
Museum of Transportation in Roanoke.
Fifteen years later after the successful rebuilt of the 4-8-4 Class J no. 611 for the Norfolk Southern Steam Program, it was decided that they acquired another locomotive to represent the railroad.
The program chose the 1218, towing the sole-surviving Class 'A' from display to the steam shops at Irondale, Alabama where the restoration project was completed in March 1987.
Throughout the East, the 1218 pulled off several excursion runs including coal drags and its first triple-header with 611 and NKP Mikado no. 587 in July 1989.
Six years onward until the steam program was just two last years before the end, the 1218 went into an overhaul inspection until 1996 marked the end of its career.
Thankfully like it was being saved from scrap, the N&W's sole-surviving Class A locomotive was now preserved by the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, displayed as one of the major visitor attractions ever since.
And although the 611 has returned to steam since 2015, it's only a matter of time before either the Class 'A' no. 1218 or any other N&W steamer will come back in action the 2nd time.
For now, it's a waiting game.
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A closes friend of mine say's the day and opportunity for 1218 to return to steam is not to fair. 3D printing stuff has been progressing more and more each day. When it reach the point were it can 3d print big stuff. They can make new casings for old steam Locomotive parts. When that happines we can make new parts for any engine over and over again.
So the day 1218 return to steam is coming
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not yet. I hope to someday.
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