These locomotives carried road numbers 2801 through 2812 and were very similar to the Boston & Albany's "sports models" Class A-1c. The C&NW designated them as Class J-4. These …

The Chicago and North Western Railway class J was a class of 310 American 2-8-2 locomotives. They were built between 1913 and 1923 by the American Locomotive Company. In addition, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (the Omaha Road) acquired 32, and also classified them as class J.

Road Number Model Bldr & Date Bldr No. Notes; 10 44-tonner Whit - 6/1943 60284; Ex-CSPMO 10 11-15 S1 Alco 6-8/48 75890-75894 Re-#d to 1216-1220; nee CGW 11-15

CNW ? Privately Owned; Kalamazoo, MI. Static display in Fairchild, WI.

Data from CStPM&O 4 - 1900 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. Works number was 1699 in January 1883. Although similar to many of the Eight-wheelers coming into service on the …

As built in 1929, these dual-service engines had an outside-cradle frame (also known as a banjo frame) holding the four-wheel trailing truck. While needed to clear the large ashpan, wrote Drury, this frame was a weak point. The first five were delivered with Baker valve gear; the rest had Walschaert's constant-lead gear.

No. 2802 was one of twelve 2-8-4 locomotives built by Alco's Dunkirk works in 1927. The main cylinders produced 67,200 lbs. of tractive force and the booster engine on the trailing truck …

Owner: Chicago & Northwestern: Model: BLW 2-8-4: Built As: CNW 2803 (2-8-4) Serial Number: 67374: Order No: B-1702: Frame Number: 28X30 cylinders, 63" drivers

Reporting Marks: CNW Showing Locomotive model 2-8-4 : Click on a locomotive to view pictures

Though not as powerful as the class H or H-1 4-8-4s, C&NW's more than 300 class J 2-8-2s — all ALCo-built — were the mainstay of its heavy freight operations into the diesel era. Lower right — The nine streamlined 4-6-4s of class E-4, Nos. 4001-4009, were the last new steam locomotives acquired by the C&NW.