New York & Pennsylvania 2-8-0 "Consolidation" Locomotives in the USA

Class 30 (Locobase 13223)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 31, p. 87. See also Ron Taylor's history of the Nip at []. Works number was 32194 in November 1907.

The Nip ran from Canisteo, New York to the junction with the Pittsburg, Shamut & Northern at Ceres, Pa. Its mainline covered 57 miles after the amalgamation in 1895 of the NYP of New York and the Pennsylvania-based Olean, Oswayo & Eastern. This little Consolidation served the 5 dozen (ish) miles.

Taylor says the line was never very healthy financially, but the Nip struggled on for decades even after the 1916 flood that washed away a key trestle. Several different fund-raising efforts sustained the line until the middle 1930s, when the line was finally sold and cut up for scrap.