Santa Fe Texas Locos With Reefer Block
A post by Taylor Rush on the Facebook From the Album group.
Description:
Shaking the ground as they storm towards the photographer at thirty miles per hour with eighty-seven cars in tow are a pair of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 5011 class "Texas" locomotives, number 5015 and 5025. The gigantic oil-burning 2-10-4 machines were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944 and carried construction numbers 70821 and 70831. Designed for dual-service, these superpower behemoths rolled on 74" drivers that transferred 108,961 pounds of tractive effort to the rails. They were fitted with roller bearings on all axles, sporting a cast-steel bed with integrated cylinders, a Worthington 6-SA feedwater heater, Walschaerts valve gear with lightweight rods, and nearly 6,000 cylinder horsepower. The extra freight was captured near Abo, New Mexico on October 5, 1947.
Four of the class have been preserved. Number 5011 at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri, number 5017 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, number 5021 at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California, and number 5030 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Original photo taken by R. H. Kindig.
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