Official Newsletter of the Norfolk & Southern Historical Society

The remaining two Norfolk Southern Moguls were Norfolk & Southern #10, originally a Vauclain compound, which rebuilt to a simple (non-compound) engine, and then further rebuilt as 4-4-0 Class B5 #43 in 1902. #43 was scrapped in 1910. The fourteenth NS Mogul was a locomotive acquired from the Kinston Carolina Railroad in 1924. This locomotive became the second 102 when it was acquired. Second 102 was scrapped in 1933.

Three Norfolk Southern Moguls, from Class C1, are interesting in that they were built as Vauclain compounds and then rebuilt as “simple” (non-compound)  engines. One, originally Norfolk & Southern 10, was further rebuilt as a 4-4-0 (see above), but the others stayed Moguls after being “simpled.” The others are 102 and 103, formerly N&S 9 and 11.

For more information about these and other locomotives, see Robert C. Reisweber and Dalton P. “Billy” McDonald, The Original Norfolk Southern Railway, 1883-1974 (Laurys Station, PA: Garrigues House, Publishers, 2007), and Richard E. Prince’s Norfolk Southern Railroad, Old Dominion Line and Connections (Millard, NE: Richard E. Prince, 1972) (out of print).