Re: NG but not CO - Atlantic & Danville

tgbcvr Wrote:
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> Anyway, they're great looking engines, and maybe
> even a bit lankier than 168. I'm a sucker for
> long-legged ten-wheelers.....

N5 is effectively the same as the 168, except it has a wagon top boiler instead of a straight boiler and some slightly different optional equipment. It was built to the same pattern as the D&RG engines and its vital statistics were equivalent. As-built in 1886 it was a wood burner with a bonnet stack, so it would've had a very classic look. N6 was originally delivered as a coal burner in 1888 as Talladega & Coosa Valley #6 only for that railroad to convert to wide gauge hardly a year later. It then ended up on the Atlantic & Danville, still carrying number 6. It too was the same pattern (Baldwin 10-22D drawing 3) as the other machines discussed, again with a wagon top boiler. This specific pattern was NOT a particularly common model, sold to only a handful of railroads besides the D&RG itself.

These are some pretty obscure railroads and there isn't a lot of information out there.