Norfolk and Western Class LC-1

The Norfolk and Western Class LC-1 was a class of twelve electric boxcabs built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westinghouse Electric for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
==History==
In the early 1910s, the Norfolk and Western Railway needed more electric locomotives for more development of their electrification project to improve traffic conditions on the Elkhorn grade in its Bluefield Division. And so, Baldwin and Westinghouse had built and delivered a total of twelve twin-unit boxcabs to the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1914–1915 which they classified them as LC-1s.
They were built to pull 3,000-short-ton (2,700 t) coal trains up and down the Elkhorn grade at speeds of 28 mph (45 km/h), a power output of 3,200 hp (2,400 kW) and had a tractive effort of 133,000 lbs (591.6 kN).
After World War II had come to a close, the N&W had bypassed the existing Elkhorn Tunnel with a new tunnel twice as long as the original, double-tracked, and on a gentler and much smoother 1.4% grade. These improvements had rendered the electrification project surplus to requirements. On the opening of the new tunnel on June 26, 1950, the N&W retired all twelve of the LC-1s after their electrification was shut down, and they were all scrapped in 1950.
== Stock list ==
Image 	First No.	Second No.	Manufacturer 	Status
Frameless	- 	2500 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
 	- 	2501 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2502 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2503 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2504 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2505 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2506 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2507 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
 	- 	2508 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2509 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2510 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
Frameless	- 	2511 	Baldwin-Westinghouse	Scrapped
== Gallery ==
File:NW LC-1 line drawing.jpg|Blueprint drawings of the LC-1.
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Category:Built in 1915
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