Norfolk and Western Class Y6

The Norfolk and Western Class Y6 was a class of 2-8-8-2 steam locomotive Mallets with a total of 35 examples built for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
==History==
The Norfolk and Western Class Y6 was a class of 2-8-8-2 steam locomotive Mallets with a total of 38 examples built for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
When the Norfolk and Western Railway ceased their mainline steam operations in 1959, 50 of the Y6s were still running out serviceable miles in the coal fields waiting for the final order of diesels to replace the Y6s.
None of these examples survived into the preservation days, they were all scrapped when the Norfolk and Western Railway had dieselized.
=== Fate of the 2143===
One of the examples No. 2143 had sat in a scrapyard along with a Y6b No. 2174, there had lost it's tender sometime before it was sent to the scrapyard, by the 1970s, it and No. 2174 had become known amongst local railfans, and a rescue attempt from the Roanoke Chapter of the NRHS, later the VMT, aimed to make money to preserve the pair of engines. This fundraising attempt had been supported by the original owner of the scrapyard, who by this time was getting up in age. This proved detrimental to the preservation of the engines when the cooperative owner passed away and the scrapyard's ownership was sold to a British Group. The new owners of the site wanted both locomotives gone in less than a month, and with little to no time to preserve the pair, they were scrapped in 1976. Some parts from the locomotives were salvaged by Bill Purdy for the Southern Steam Program.
==Accidents and Incidents==
*On September 26, 1950, No. 2153 was on a train run when it suffered a crown-sheet failure, and a catastrophic boiler explosion, which destroyed the cab of the locomotive as well as blasting the smokebox door off it's hinges, this boiler explosion had occurred in Wytheville, Virginia.
==Stock List==
Photograph	Loco No.	Build date(s)	Status 	Notes
Frameless 	2120 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2121 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2122 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2123 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2124 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2125 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2126 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2127 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2128 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2129 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2130 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2131 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2132 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2133 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2134 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2135 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2136 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2137 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2138 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2139 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2140 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2141 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2142 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2143 	- 	Scrapped	Scrapped along with N&W Y6b No. 2174.
 	2144 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2145 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2146 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2147 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2148 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2149 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2150 	- 	Scrapped	
Frameless 	2151 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2152 	- 	Scrapped	
 	2153 	- 	Scrapped	Involved in a boiler explosion, scrapped
Frameless 	2154 	- 	Scrapped	
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