The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis's first 4-8-2s came from American Locomotive Company's Richmond works in 1919. The five members of the J-1a class weighed 327,000 pounds and developed 53,883 pounds of tractive effort. They had 69-inch drivers and 27x30-inch cylinders, and carried 200 p.s.i. of boiler pressure. Their grate area was somewhat over 70 square feet, while their evaporative heating surface totaled 4181 square feet and their superheater surface 966 square feet. By 1951 all had been removed from the NC&StL roster. No. 551 is shown here at Memphis, Tennessee in an undated photo by R. J. Foster from the C. T. Felstead collection. The image came to our Random Steam Collection through an eBay purchase.