N&W Mallet was not a 2-6-6-2?

It's called offering something with an N&W logo on the side.
Like Bachmann offering a B&O J when N&W was the only one that had them.

Nice but for that price It's a No We O.

David

The Z-class was 2-6-6-2. I'm not an N&W expert by any means, but according to these guys: http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve...7660482/m/3562932227 the N&W specific details are not on the model.

It really didn't bother me since I intended all along to relabel mine Union Pacific (I have no idea if they had Mallet's either but its a nice looking and running loco)

The N&W had 190 2-6-6-2's.

Here is an interesting tidbit from the Prince book about the N&W. When the Ringling Brothers & Barnham & Bailey Combined Shows came to Norfolk via the N&W Ry during the '30's, four Z1b Mallets, one handling each section handled the consist.

Wouldn't that be fun to model.

Scott Smith

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Originally posted by Lee Willis:
It really didn't bother me since I intended all along to relabel mine Union Pacific (I have no idea if they had Mallet's either but its a nice looking and running loco)

UP 2-8-8-2's yes...

UP 2-6-6-2's no...

Just a friendly FYI. Your railroad, your rules.

Rusty

Thank goodness. That fact just saved me some $$$$

The Lionel N&W 2-6-6-2 is not a true N&W model, but the wheel arrangement is one of
the few parts that is perfectly correct for some (Z) N&W articulateds.

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N&W Mallet was not a 2-6-6-2?

Then what was it cjack? It wasn't a Class A. That was a simple articulated. Not a true "Mallet".
Actually, I don't understand your post at all. But, for what it's worth, the N&W had two styles of "Mallets". The 2-6-6-2's and 2-8-8-2's.

I could only find that N&W had a 2-6-6-4. No 2-6-6-2. Maybe I need to look deeper.

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Originally posted by cjack:
I could only find that N&W had a 2-6-6-4. No 2-6-6-2. Maybe I need to look deeper.

Chuck,

You are trying to compare two completely different types of steam locomotives.

First, the 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" locomotives from Lionel you are referring to, are truelly "Mallet" types, i.e. COMPOUND articulated steam locomotives. The high pressure steam was first used in the rear set of cylinders, then exhausted into the front and much larger set of low pressure cylinders.

Second, the C&O, W&LE, N&W, and a few other railroads had quite large rosters of these "Mallet" type compound articulated steam locomotives. The N&W 2-6-6-2 where the "Z" Class, and the C&O's where the H-4, and H-5, and H-6 classes.

Third, the N&W "A" Class you are referring to was NOT a "Mallet" type, but a SIMPLE articulated, where the high pressure steam is used in ALL FOUR cylinders. The N&W "A" Class locomotives where MUCH bigger than the 2-6-6-2 "Mallets", having a MUCH bigger firebox/boiler. Thus the 2-6-6-4 wheel arrangement, with the two axle trailing truck to support the BIG firebox.

Lastly, yes you definately need to "look deeper"!

Thanks for the reply. I did a search and found the Z1 and Z2 as you said.

These last two are pictures of the Z2, I believe there was only one ever made.





Scott Smith