The Ron V. Nixon Collection

Steam Locomotive Record - NP271

1907 Number: 271 Wheel Type: 4-6-0 Type Name: 10-Wheeler Class: P Builder: Schenectady Year Built: 1898 Construction Number: 4719 Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Former Owner: 221 Former Number 1: Former Number 2: Former Number 3: Disposition: Scrapped S Tacoma Remarks: Total Built - 18 (250-258, 270-278). Comparatively heavy ten-wheelers were ordered for mainline passenger service but were used in that capacity for only a few years as they were soon replaced by Pacifics. But they spent many years over the entire system, usually hauling mainline stubs and branch passenger trains. They were last used out of Seattle and Tacoma where in the 1920s and 1930S they had a reputation of being ballast scorchers.

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Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman