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Owner: Central Rail Road of New Jersey
Model:Alco 4-8-0Built As:CNJ 438 (4-8-0)
Serial Number:3179Order No:
Frame Number:21X32 cylinders, 55" driversBuilt:4/1899
Notes:Brooks, 1899, K-1 class, reblt at Schen. 07/21, scrapped 07/46
Other locos with this serial:  CNJ 438(4-8-0)
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CNJ 4-8-0C #438 - Central RR of New Jersey
Title:  CNJ 4-8-0C #438 - Central RR of New Jersey
Description:  Another view of this 1899 Alco-Brooks camelback. Thanks to a comment from Daniel Pagdon about the CNJ nickname for this wheel configuration, "Mastodon", it seems very appropriate!
Photo Date:  6/1/1920  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 4:55:50 PM
Location:  unknown, NJ
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CNJ 438(4-8-0)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
CNJ 4-8-0C #438 - Central RR of New Jersey
Title:  CNJ 4-8-0C #438 - Central RR of New Jersey
Description:  Here is a CNJ work train headed up by an 1899 Alco-Brooks built 12 Wheeler camelback. Thanks to a comment from Daniel Pagdon about the CNJ nickname for this wheel configuration, "Mastodon", it seems very appropriate!Date and location were not given. No photographer listed.
Photo Date:  6/1/1920  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 12:35:54 PM
Location:  unknown, NJ
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CNJ 438(4-8-0)
Views:  403   Comments: 1
CNJ 4-8-0C #438 - Central RR of New Jersey
Title:  CNJ 4-8-0C #438 - Central RR of New Jersey
Description:  Built in April of 1899 by the Brooks Locomotive Works before it joined Alco, this hefty CNJ 4-8-0C #438 (serial #2179, class 430) camelback was one of the largest camelbacks in the CNJ roster. It had 55" drivers and 20x32" cylinders. The loco was rebuilt in April, 1917 to class K1s with 20x32" cylinders and rebuilt again in July of 1921 to class K1as. Finally it was reclassified as class TW40 in 1945, The loco met the scrapper's torch at Elizabethport, NJ in July of 1946. No exact date given for the photo. Unknown photographer
Photo Date:  6/1/1936  Upload Date: 5/23/2022 8:20:55 AM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CNJ 438(4-8-0)
Views:  167   Comments: 0


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