PRR N2

What is the difference/differences between the N1 and the N2?

The N2 goes to 11

The N1s was a Pennsy "Lines West" design, while the N2s was a USRA "heavy" design.  The N2s was built, like all USRA designs, with a conventional firebox.  Later Pennsy rebuilt all of them with Belpaire fireboxes, and reclassed them as N2sa.

Stuart

What????

Here's the real thing taken by myself back in 1952 when I was headed from St. Louis

to Boston via New York City on the PRR.

Lew Schneider

Very nice but, is that an N1 or an N2 class of 2-10-2?

Vague Spinal Tap reference.

My books show there were 60 N1s engines built, and 130 N2sa engines.  The N2s engines were built in 1919, and all of them were rebuilt into N2sa engines in the 1920s. I too would like to see an N2 engine released by one of the manufacturers, but I would only buy the N2sa version since there were no N2s engines around post WWII.

The picture above is a N2sa.  The N1s was pretty much gone by 1950, and only a few N2sa engines made it into the 50s.

Not me!  As a Pennsy fan I have at least one of every class PRR steam except 5, the N being one of them.  Personally looking at a N class, I do not see Pennsy.

Just my 2-cents,

Ron

Ron,

Are you collecting all steamers Pennsy built starting from the 1860s?  That would be really neat.

I was concentrating only on engines the Pennsy had in operation in 1949, which included both the N1s and N2sa (I've already broke this rule with the Y3, and going to again with the Q1 and S2).

The N2s, a USRA design, would probably be more cost effective for one of the model manufacturers to build since other railroads used it too.  However, a PRR N2s being gone by the mid-1920s would not fit into my layout theme.

Those were N2sa's.  The N1s had a BIG air tank on the pilot.  Also, the N2sa's had the USRA style cab.

Stuart

The N2SA was primary heavy freight engine on the PRR's GR&I (Grand Rapids & Indiana).    This line ran from Ft wayne all the way up to Mackinaw City.   In later years the GR&I division included a line down to Cincinnati I think.  

The line north of Grand Rapids had some light weight bridges, and PRR engines with typical heavy axle loadings were prohibited.    The G5 was the primary passenger engine, a K4 had too heavy axle loadings for example.   I am not sure how far north the N2s could go, maybe all the way.   

Cool photos Lew!!! THX

I am in for BOTH the USRA N2 and the PRR Rebuilt N2sa. I agree the N2 class is ONE of the Last several calls loco's to be brought out in O Gauge by the Mfg's.

there were 175 locos produced for the following roads:

• B&LE -5
• CB&Q-10
• Erie -25
• C&S-5
• PRR -130

A nice scattering of the model from the Northeast to the Midwest. I can see the production numbers in at least a few runs of this model in Both the round and belpaire versions.

The other PRR classes I would like to see are the:

• F3 Class
• the J28
• CC1
• HH1 "big Liz"