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Santa Fe Gallery

Santa Fe

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(LA 77-11) Engine 2401. Built in the year 1877.
Heavy duty freight locomotive of the 2-10-4 type purchased from Baldwin Locomotive Works. It is of the 5001 class and its tender carries 20,000 gallons of water. The tenders of the five coal burners have a capacity of 23 tons of coal each.
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F-3 Type Diesel Electro-Motive engine
C-7 LA 1007 Freight Diesel on Kansas Prairie
Hleper Engines pushe freight train through tunne latop Raton Paa.
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LA 13-1 San Diegan exterior Tail Sign
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Engine 1004 - 1000 Class. This Prairie or 2-6-2 type of locomotives was built in 1907 for heavy duty passenger service in level terrirtory on the Santa Fe. Originally equipped with Vauclain compund cylinders and 79" drivers. Simple cylinders, superheater and 69" drivers applied by Railway Company for freight service. Now used in branch line freight service.
Santa Fe's Super Chief running through Cocnino National Forest, west of Flagstaff, Arizona
The Super Chief, one of seventeen streamliners of the Santa Fe Railway, operates every other day between Chicago and Loas Angeles, a distance of 2,227 miles on a schedule of 39-3/4 hours.
Converging from many parts of the system, this photograph taken at Turner, Kansas, Shows some of the 2,200 trains that move over the Santa Fe every 24 hours.
No. 2 Locomotive of the Santa Fe Railway, named the W.B. Strong for the second president of the road, an eight-wheeler with 62-inch drivers, was built in 1881 and cost $8600. In 1938 Santa Fe placed in service 17 Passenger locomotives of 4-6-4 and 4-8-4 types, with drivers of 84" and 80" resepectively and weighing 209 and 248 tons each.
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