Norfolk and Western No. 1202

Norfolk and Western A Class #1202 handling the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus train in Singer, Virginia back in the 1940's.

The Norfolk and Western No. 1202 is an A Class 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive built in 1936 by the N&W's Roanoke Shops for the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

It was used for fast freight trains, but they also use it to pulled heavy coal trains on the flatter districts of the Norfolk & Western system, and reportedly even pulled heavy passenger trains at times.

In the 1940's the locomotive was seen handling the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus train in Virginia.

It worked until the end of steam in June 1959, and the locomotive was sold to the Union Carbide Company, where it was used alongside fellow A class locomotives Nos. 1218 and 1230 as stationary boilers at a chemical plant in South Charleston, West Virginia.

By fall of 1964, the Nos. 1202 and 1230 locomotives were both scrapped, but No. 1218 survived into preservation.