N&W G1 #7 is located at the north eastern end of Bluefield City Park just off Stadium Road near the intersection with Bluefield High School Road (only a few feet from the Virginia state line).

#7 is a Consolidation type locomotive (2-8-0), one of 7 of this class built by Baldwin in 1897 as helpers on Norfolk & Western’s Flat Top Mountain-Elkhorn Tunnel grade. It cost $10,810, operated at a boiler pressure of 180 psi , had 20” x 24” cylinders and a tractive effort of 29,376 lbs. .

As far as I can ascertain, #7 was donated to the City of Bluefield by the Norfolk & Western Railway in 1956 and was transferred to the park that year.

N&W G1 #6 is on display in Roanoke. You can see some photographs of it on the Virginia Museum of Transportation page of this website.

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#7 is on display with a N&W hopper car and caboose. It was originally on open display but, as result of quite bad damage caused by vandals over the years, it was eventually fenced off.

Close up and in a raking light, the view on the left shows #7 looking the worse for the West Virginia weather.

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