Santa Fe type are locomotives with the 2-10-2 wheel arrangement based on Whyte's system.
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Pennsylvania 9404 gets a drink of water. This engine was built in the Pennsy's own Juniata shops.
Southern Railway engine 5049 at Johnson City, Tennessee. Note the two large sand domes and theSouthern valve gear on this Baldwin.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 6115 at Quincy, Illinois. This Baldwin has a Worthington feed waterheater and mechanical stoker.
Union Pacific's number5518 is helping shove a 125 car freight up Cajon Pass in California.5518 is a Baldwin-built locomotive.
Two for the price of one! Here Reading Company locomotives3018 and 3019 are spotted at Reading, Pennsylvania. These engines were rebuilt from 2-8-8-2 compound Mallets. Note the very wide Wooten fireboxes.
Wabash class L-1 number2508 was built by ALCO in 1917. She's seen outside the LandersRoundhouse (that used to be) at 79th and California Avenue in Chicago. Note the very largesand domes and twin Westinghouse cross-compound air compressors.
Rounding out the Santa Fe type, we actually see Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe number 3895 at speed crossing the Mojave Desert near Amboy, California.She has 86 cars in tow.
All images Copyright 1995 Darryl Van Nort